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The Origins of Family Psychotherapy - The NIMH Family Study Project (Paperback)
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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 concept that the family could be conceptualized and treated as
an emotional unit. The second, was family psychotherapy, which
began as staff-family daily meetings on the inpatient unit. The
findings of Bowen's project remain part of mainstream mental health
practice today. From that project, Bowen went on to develop his
well known eight interlocking theoretical concepts that continue to
be highly influential both in mental health and business. Bowen's
project also significantly transformed the therapeutic
relationship. The psychotherapist tried to achieve a balance when
working with the families by making emotional connections while
staying out of intense emotional reactions. They also worked
diligently to avoid psychologically replacing parents. This book
details the story of how these transformative changes came about by
highlighting the original papers of the project.
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