ABSTRACT
When an adult or an older adolescent elects to come to therapy, there is a certain straightforwardness to the meaning of the enterprise, at least at the level of social reality and interpersonal contracting. By contrast, when a disembedding adolescent comes to a therapist's office, it is a complex event in an unfolding family history. And, precisely to the extent that disembedding is still a developmental issue, the meaning of therapy will be conferred by the nature and nuances of this still unfolding history.
