Postmodernist ideas are widely used in family therapy. However, it is argued that these ideas have their limits in meeting the richness and complexity of human experience and therapy practice. <EM>Family Therapy Beyond Postmodernism</EM> examines postmodernism and its expressions in family therapy, raising questions about:<BR>* reality and realness<BR>* the subjective process of truth<BR>* the experience of self.<BR>Alongside identifying the difficulties in any sole reliance on narrative and constructionist ideas, this book advocates the value of selected psychoanalytic ideas for family therapy practice, in particular:<BR>* attachment and the unconscious<BR>* transference, projective identification and understandings of time<BR>* psychoanalytic ideas about thinking and containment in the therapeutic relationship.<BR><EM>Family Therapy Beyond Postmodernism</EM> offers a sustained critical discussion of the possibilities and limits of contemporary family therapy knowledge, and develops a