ABSTRACT
This book has demonstrated that family therapy is a multifaceted therapy that has undergone signi®cant changes during the course of its development. Historically, it has gone through periods of intense change. In its early days the fervour of its pioneers seemed to promise interpersonal cures for many dif®- culties. During its more re¯ective days, it consorted with an array of philosophical ideas. Indeed McNamee has called it `promiscuous' (2004). Some of its postmodern proponents would regard it as out of date and in Derrida's phrase `erased' already! So in the early part of the twenty-®rst century what remains and what is family therapy's future?
