Origins of Theory
Agazarian had from the sixties been interested in the paradigm clash presented by her training in individual psychotherapy and in group therapy, and in the possibility of overcoming it: from the eighties onwards, she explored the possibility of resolving it through General systems theory
It was, however, the challenge presented in the following decade by Health maintenance organizations and their stress on short-term therapy, that propelled her into devising systems-centered therapy, in order (she states) to discover "how to think about short-term therapy in a way that maintained the integrity and values of our work".
The influences she credits on her work range from W. R. Bion and John Bowlby to Erwin Schrödinger and Ludwig von Bertalanffy, reflecting both her intellectual range and the trajectory of her movement from psychoanalysis through whole-group therapy to systems centered therapy.
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