Introduction to Family Psychotherapy

Family psychotherapy is described in this paper as one that regards problems and dysfunction as emanating from the family system rather than from the intrapsychic problems of any one individual. The family psychotherapy regards the family as the target to carry on the psychotherapy, It achieves the therapy goal inclusively through setting up good family psychological atmosphere and psychology kinsfolks among family members. This text has introduced the psychotherapy origin, development, current situation and relevant theory of the family emphatically, and has narrated it comparing with individual psychotherapy, group psychotherapy.