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First child guidance clinic
Alfred Adler establishes the first child guidance clinic in Vienna -
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First institutes for marriage counseling
The first institutes for marriage counseling were established. Clinicians began to recognize the advantages of treating married couples in conjoint sessions. -
Groves conference first began
The conferences began with professor Ernest Groves bringing together a few teachers and students who were seriously interested in the study of the family. -
First paper published on family therapy
Nathan Ackerman is credited as being the author of the first paper published on family therapy "The unity of family" -
Don Jackson
Don Jackson graduates from Stanford University School of Medicine and strongly rejected the psychoanalytic concepts that formed the basis of his early training. -
Murray Bowen
Bowen at Menninger Clinic -
Carl Whitaker
Whitaker at Emory -
Gregory Bateson
Bateson at Harvard -
Macy Conferences held
The aim of the conferences was to promote meaningful communication across scientific disciplines and restore unity to science. -
Schizophrenogenic mother
Carl Whitaker begins conferences on schizophrenia -
John Bell visits John Bowlby
John Bells visits John Bowlby who worked with problem children and occassionally brought in the family -
Gregory Bateson receives Rockefeller grant
Bateson receives Rockefeller grant to study communication in Palo Alto Wynne at National Institute of Mental Health -
Jay Haley invited to work with Gregory Bateson
Jay Haley invited to work with Gregory Bateson on schizophrenia project -
First director of the Family Division at the NIMH
Murray Bowen became the first director of the Family Division at the National Institute of Mental Health. -
The practice of treating psychological problems in the context of the family begins
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Double bind
Gregory Bateson and his colleagues introduce the concept of double bind to describe how schizophrenic symptoms could be explained in the concept of family -
Ivan Bosznormenyi-Nagy
Bosznormenyi-Nagy opens Family Therapy department at EPPI in Phildelphia -
Mental Research Institute founded
MRI founded by Don Jackson and colleagues -
Virginia Satir
Satir serves as the director of training at the Mental Research Institute in Palo Alto -
Family Institute founded
Family Institute founded by Nathan Ackerman -
Family therapy at Wiltwyk
Salvador Minuchin and collegues began doing family therapy at Wiltwyk -
John Bell published "Family Group Therapy"
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Salvador Minuchin and Jay Haley
Salvador Minuchin and Jay Haley formed a professional relationship -
Gregory Bateson's Palo Alto project ends
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First journal on family therapy
Nathan Ackerman and Don Jackson founded the journal "Family Process" -
Virginia Satir publishes "Conjoint Family Therapy
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Behavioral Family Therapy first appeared
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Don Jackson
Don Jackson commits suicide at the age of 48 -
Nathan Ackerman
Nathan Ackerman dies and the Family Institute is renamed the Ackerman Institute -
Center for Family Learning is founded
The Center for Family Learning is founded by Phil Guerin. -
Ivan Bosznormenyi-Nagy and Geraldine Spark publish "Invisible Loyalties"
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The Journal of Marital and Family Therapy is launched
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Family Therapy Institute
Jay Haley moves to Washington D.C. and founded the Family Therapy Institute with Cloe Mandanes. This became a major training institute in the United States. -
The American Family Therapy Association is founded
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Milton Erickson
Milton Erickson dies -
Gregory Bateson
Gregory Bateson dies -
Salvador Minuchin establishes Family Studies
Minuchin establishes Family Studies, a center for training in family therapy -
Division of Family Psychology
The Division of Family Psychology is established in the APA. -
Virginia Satir
Virginia Satir dies after suffering from pancreatic cancer. -
Murray Bowen
Murray Bowen dies after suffering from a lengthy illness. -
Family Institute
Family Institute of New Jersey is founded by Monica McGoldrick. -
Carl Whitaker
Carl Whitaker dies -
Jay Haley retires
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Salvador Minuchin retires
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John Bell
John Bell dies. -
Neil Jacobson
Neil Jacobson dies -
Mara Selvini Palazzoli
Mara Selvini Palazzoli dies -
Millennium Conference
Millennium Conference held in Toronto, Canada, honoring the Past and Embracing the future in Family Therapy -
James Framo
James Framo dies -
Eve Lipchik published "Beyond Techniques in Solution-Focused Therapy
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Gianfranco Cecchin
Gianfranco Cecchin dies -
Steve De Shazar
Steve De Shazar dies -
Jay Haley
Jay Haley dies. -
Lyman Wynne
Lyman Wynne dies. -
Insoo Kim Berg
Insoo Kim Berg dies -
Albert Ellis
Albert Ellis dies -
Thomas Fogarty
Thomas Fogarty dies -
Michael White
Michael White dies. -
Betty Carter
Betty Carter dies. -
Alan Gurman
Alan Gurman dies. -
Donald Bloch
Donald Bloch dies.
