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Editorial: Whither family therapy: alive and flowering amidst the challenges.

In 1962, Jay Haley wrote one of his legendary articles to mark the beginning of his tenure as editor of Family Process called “Whither family therapy” (Haley, 1962). Fifty years later in this issue we revisit this question. The landscape is much changed over a half century. The then contemporaneous America portrayed in the television show Mad Men has evolved into the much different world of Girls and The Kids are Alright. That opulent urban world of Mad Men was also once the world in which psychotherapies were principally practiced outside of state hospitals. Today, psychotherapies, including family therapy, have a worldwide presence and are widely accessible across social class, often offered in North America and Europe as part of healthcare insurance or local or national health services. Subsequent to Haley’s 1962 article, family therapy fairly quickly commanded widespread attention, a brash provocative challenger to the then individually focused, primarily psychoanalytic orthodoxy (Beels, 2011). Family Therapy workshops and training programs multiplied with a remarkable generation of charismatic masters shepherding the field into prominence. Models were created and legions trained in those models. Yet it is part of the yin and yang of most phenomena, certainly psychotherapies, that what is new and exciting inevitably evolves and becomes less revolutionary as time passes. In so evolving into a mature field of endeavor, family therapies have changed considerably over time (Lebow & Stroud, 2013). And yet family therapy still stands out as unique and different from other therapies. The system rather than the individual is a principal focus of attention, in terms of both goals of treatment and who is included in treatment. Family therapy has a rich history as both a collection of ideas and of methods of practice. Indeed, it is the rare form of practice that once was defined more in terms of a conceptual frame rather than a method. For example, Gurman, Kniskern, and Pinsof (1986, p. 565) offered the following classic defini-