Abstract
Much of family therapy's past has been estranged, intentionally so, from mainstream individual and group psychotherapy, from which it evolved. Family therapy's genuine and self-proclaimed differentness helped to sequester it from the influences of the mental health establishment. Although this position was functional and developmentally useful in its day, this separatist position is no longer viable (Coyne and Liddle 1992). There is a developing spirit of integration of methods in family therapy, and in group psychotherapy as well, to deal with pragmatic, clinical problems and population-specific treatment packages, using integrated treatment models.