ABSTRACT
I want to refelct here on a number of matters. Without apology they are wide-ranging and complex, but I feel, crucial in the field of practice which is called Family Therapy. They are: on being an individual; on being a therapist; on being a family therapist: and on being a systems thinker. I will discuss each of them making full use of my knowledge of the reading I have succeeded in doing over many years now; of my experience of having lived in two families; and of the learning that I have received, actively and passively as a therapist - someone who is paid to interfere in other people's lives. At the end of this chapter I will list a series of reading and articles which are important with respect to the views I have developed and which may assist any reader to further explore the questions I pose and the solutions I propose. They are interim solutions only.
