The Origins of Family Psychotherapy: The NIMH Family Study Project by Bowen, Murray - 2015-02-20

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Paperback / softback. New. Family therapy has become a well-established treatment modality across many mental health disciplines including clinical social work, psychology, psychiatry, nursing, and counseling. This book tells the story of how family therapy began based on the work of one of the pioneers of family theory and therapy, Murray Bowen, M.D. Bowen's psychiatric training began at the Menninger Foundation in 1946. It was during the later part of his eight years at Menninger's that he began his transition away from conventional psychoanalytic theory and practice. Bowen left Menninger's in 1954 and began a historic family research program at the National Institutes of Mental Health (NIMH) in Bethesda, Maryland. This program, called the Family Study Program, involved hospitalizing entire families on a specialized research ward. He was interested in families with a child diagnosed with schizophrenia. There were two central findings of Bowen's four year project. The first was the… Read More

Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, 2015. Paperback. New. reprint edition. 180 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.50 inches.

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Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, 2015. Paperback. New. reprint edition. 180 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.50 inches.

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