All clinical mental health practitioners are also theoreticians, proclaims Magnavita, himself a practicing psychologist and marriage and family therapist, though not many have spent the time he has to articulate formally the unique model that intuitively guides their work. He presents a unified model that he has distilled from the matrix of clinical and theoretical systems that have been advanced during the first century of modern psychotherapy and clinical sciences. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)