ABSTRACT
The History of Marriage and Family Therapy Joseph L. Wetchler
The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
Gregory Bateson
Welcome to An Introduction to Marriage and Family Therapy. This book serves as an introduction to and overview of the fastest-growing arm of the mental health field, marriage and family therapy. Perhaps this would be a good time to present a preliminary definition. Marriage and family ther apy is a model of mental health treatment that takes a family perspective toward emotional problems and psychopathology. It places individual pa thology in a relational context and views treatment as encompassing the envi ronment in which it is maintained, namely, the family.
