Career and Publication
From 1946 Whitaker served as Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at Emory University, where he focused on treating schizophrenics and their families. He became a professor of Psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1965 until his retirement in 1982. During his tenure at the University of Wisconsin University of Wisconsin–Madison, he refined and articulated his ideas about psychotherapy, which he coined symbolic-experiential family therapy, and his national influence on the emerging field grew stronger.
A number of Whitaker's ideas about family therapy are presented in The Family Crucible, written with Dr. August Napier in 1978, which became a highly influential work in the field. In 1982 Dr. Whitaker's major articles on family therapy were collected in From Psyche to System edited by John R. Neill and David Kniskern.
After his retirement Dr. Whitaker continued to teach and lecture widely, and he and his wife, Muriel Schram Whitaker, consulted with and supervised family therapists around the world. His last book, Midnight Musings of a Family Therapist, was published in 1988 by W. W. Norton.
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