For the benefit of family therapists who want to learn more about addiction, Dr. Levin reviews its psychological, psychodynamic, biological, pharmacological, and systemic concomitants; for those individual therapists-dynamic, cognitive, and behavioral-who want to learn more about systems approaches in order to draw on a new repertoire, he introduces and distinguishes among the schools of family therapy. Dr. Levin uses alcoholism as a model addiction to illustrate, in imaginative clinical reconstructions, how theory, research, technique, and flying by the proverbial seat of the professional pants can integrate into a therapeutic style to help substance abusers and their partners and families.