Founders and Key Influences
Some key developers of family therapy are:
- Alfred Adler (phenomenology)
- Nathan Ackerman (psychoanalytic)
- Tom Andersen (Reflecting practices and dialogues about dialogues)
- Harlene Anderson (Postmodern Collaborative Therapy and Collaborative Language Systems)
- Harry J Aponte (Person-of-the-Therapist)
- Gregory Bateson (1904–1980) (cybernetics, systems theory)
- Ivan Böszörményi-Nagy (Contextual therapy, intergenerational, relational ethics)
- Murray Bowen (Systems theory, intergenerational)
- Steve de Shazer (solution focused therapy)
- Milton H. Erickson (hypnotherapy, strategic therapy, brief therapy)
- Richard Fisch (brief therapy, strategic therapy)
- James Framo (object relations theory, intergenerational)
- Edwin Friedman (Family process in religious congregations)
- Hans-Werner Gessmann (Humanistic Psychodrama in family reconstruction, hypnosystemic therapy in sexual disorders)
- Harry Goolishian (Postmodern Collaborative Therapy and Collaborative Language Systems)
- John Gottman (marriage)
- Robert-Jay Green (LGBT, cross-cultural issues)
- Jay Haley (strategic therapy, communications)
- Lynn Hoffman (strategic, post-systems, collaborative)
- Don D. Jackson (systems theory)
- Sue Johnson (Emotionally focused therapy, attachment theory)
- Bradford Keeney (cybernetics, resource focused therapy)
- Walter Kempler (Gestalt psychology)
- Bernard Luskin (media psychology, Public understanding of issues through media)
- Cloe Madanes (strategic therapy)
- Salvador Minuchin (structural)
- Braulio Montalvo (structural)
- Virginia Satir (communications, experiential, conjoint and co-therapy)
- Mara Selvini Palazzoli (Milan systems)
- Ross Speck (network therapy)
- Robin Skynner (Group Analysis)
- Paul Watzlawick (Brief therapy, systems theory)
- John Weakland (Brief therapy, strategic therapy, systems theory)
- Carl Whitaker (Family systems, experiential, co-therapy)
- Michael White (narrative therapy)
- Lyman Wynne (Schizophrenia, pseudomutuality)
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