In relation to family of origin work in the training of family therapist, the authors discuss the appropriate age of trainees, the interface between personal and academic segments of the course, and potential risks and benefits involved. Two of the authors, Barry Mason and Paul Gibney, participated in a panel discussion on this topic at the Inaugural Pan Pacific Family Therapy Congress in Melbourne, 2001.

This article presents a series of ‘snapshots’ of the history of the journal now known as the ANZJFT (Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy). While a full, detailed history of the journal from its inception is beyond the scope of this paper, the authors offer glimpses of the journal at key points in its 25‐year history, and from these, readers can reconstruct some of the changes that have occurred, and the continuities in values and attitudes that the ANZJFT has attempted to preserve, throughout its existence. The authors comment, from their own recent experience, on particular dilemmas, which they have faced, and use their own data to update a bibliometric survey of the journal originally carried out by Davis and Lipson (1996).

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This paper presents a view of family secrets that is informed by their