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IN CONTEXT

APPROACH

Family therapy

BEFORE

1942 Carl Rogers publishes Counseling and Psychotherapy, emphasizing the role of respect and a nonjudgmental approach in mental health treatment.

AFTER

1953 US psychiatrist Harry Stack Sullivan publishes The Interpersonal Theory of Psychiatry, which states that people are products of their environment.

1965 Argentinian-born psychiatrist Salvador Minuchin brings family therapy to prominence at the Philadelphia Child Guidance Clinic.

1980 Italian psychiatrist Mara Selvini Palazzoli and her colleagues publish articles about their “Milan systems” approach to family therapy.

The role that a person assumes in their “family ...

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