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Book Reviews : Becvar, D. S., & Becvar, R. J. (1993). Family therapy: A systemic integration. Boston, MA: Allyn & Bacon

When I first picked up Family Therapy: A Systemic Integration, I anticipated that the book was foremost a presentation of the seminal models of family therapy and that my task would be to assess the accuracy, coverage, and cohesion of the reviewed models. Much to my delight that was not the case. Although the book does include many models of family therapy, the underlying theme is epistemology: That is, how do we describe the theoretical framework of systemic family therapy? The authors’ primary goal is to help readers to think systemically, assess their theoretical and practice assumptions, evaluate the inconsistencies between those assumptions and their actions, and translate systemic thinking into practice possibilities. When I read this goal in the preface, I was skeptical that the book could live up to such an ambitious aim. However, after I finished the entire book I realized that, in fact, the authors were zealous in their commitment to integrate systemic thinking into