A Brief History of the Family Therapy Movement

Authors

  • Claude A. Goldner Author
  • Patricia P. Tummon Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.12926/gfa22r70

Keywords:

Family Therapy Movement

Abstract

The history of the family therapy movement is traced from its . origins in the late 1940s until the present. Family therapists are classfied under three main groups: conductors, reactor analysts, and system purists. Major family therapists making an impact upon the
developing field today are categorized under this classification.

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2025-01-18

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Vol. 35 No. 4 (1983): Group Psychotherapy, Psychodrama, and Sociometry

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