For example, in The Family Crucible, an American book on family therapy much admired by the psychological community in Taiwan, the writer mentions a case in which an adolescent patient was originally diagnosed as being schizophrenic. However, another group of psychologists reevaluated her case from the perspective of family therapy and found that she was a scapegoat for a problem marriage. In treating a problem, you must get to the root cause.
例如在非常受到國內心理學界推崇的美國家庭治療著作《熱鍋上的家庭》一書中，正處青少年階段的個案原本被診斷為精神分裂，但另一對心理醫生從家庭治療的角度下發現，她只不過是問題婚姻的代罪羔羊，解鈴，還得從根源下手。