What is it about?

This article defines, compares, and contrasts two very different organizing frameworks for the delivery of marital and family therapy.

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Why is it important?

It not only helps to clearly define systemic relational tenets of practice, but it provides a contrasting purely psychiatric or medical point-of-view for providing services to couples and families.

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This paper is important in the progression of ideas that lead to the full definition of paradigms of counseling and psychotherapy and my books on the topic.

University of Missouri Curators' Distinguished Professor Robert Rocco Cottone
University of Missouri St. Louis

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This page is a summary of: DEFINING THE PSYCHOMEDICAL AND SYSTEMIC PARADIGMS IN MARITAL AND FAMILY THERAPY, Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, July 1989, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-0606.1989.tb00804.x.
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