“Family psychiatry,” Dr. Howells says in his preface, “is not family therapy, but as one American family therapist put it ‘the field of family therapy is to be considered a branch of the broader discipline of family psychiatry.’” Both are represented in this volume. Family psychiatry, with its fulcrum in the United Kingdom, is broad in scope, and its core idea is that the family is the unit throughout clinical practice—for psychopathology, diagnosis, and treatment. Family therapy, with its fulcrum in the United States, is a narrower approach, but of considerable size, with an emphasis on treatment. This book covers all aspects of family psychiatry—theory, family psychopathology, family diagnosis, family symptomatology, family psychotherapy, and vector therapy. Consists of 36 recent papers from a wide variety of journals in seven countries, in 542 close-set pages, and with indexes.