ABSTRACT
In Systemic Family Therapy, the therapist understands that family members are interactionally involved with one another, and that the therapist also comes in contact with those members. That realization entails a necessary exploration of the self and style of the therapist. Further, a systemic viewpoint requires an awareness of larger contexts, such as gender, class, race, culture, nationality, and language. This chapter challenges the reader to become self-reflexive when exploring their work within the current climate of family therapy as well as societal dynamics. The chapter ends with the keynote address that Dr. Salvador Minuchin was going to give at the Evolution of Psychotherapy Conference, which was going to be his last public presentation of family therapy.
