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Founders and key influences
Some key developers of family therapy are:
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Alfred Adler (phenomenology)
Nathan Ackerman (psychoanalytic)
Tom Andersen (Reflecting practices and dialogues about dialogues)
Harlene Anderson (Postmodern Collaborative Therapy and Collaborative Language Systems)
Harry J Aponte (Person-of-the-Therapist)
Gregory Bateson (1904–1980) (cybernetics, systems theory)
Ivan Böszörményi-Nagy (Contextual therapy, intergenerational, relational ethics)
Murray Bowen (Systems theory, intergenerational)
Steve de Shazer (solution focused therapy)
James Dobson (Christian psychologist) Focus on the Family
Milton H. Erickson (hypnotherapy, strategic therapy, brief therapy)
Richard Fisch (brief therapy, strategic therapy)
James Framo (object relations theory, intergenerational)
Edwin Friedman (Family process in religious congregations)
Harry Goolishian (Postmodern Collaborative Therapy and Collaborative Language Systems)
John Gottman (marriage)
Robert-Jay Green (LGBT, cross-cultural issues)
Jay Haley (strategic therapy, communications)
Lynn Hoffman (strategic, post-systems, collaborative)
Don D. Jackson (systems theory)
Sue Johnson (Emotionally focused therapy, attachment theory)
Bradford Keeney (cybernetics, resource focused therapy)
Walter Kempler (Gestalt psychology)
Bernard Luskin (media psychology, Public understanding of issues through media)
Cloe Madanes (strategic therapy)
Salvador Minuchin (structural)
Braulio Montalvo (structural)[citation needed]
Virginia Satir (communications, experiential, conjoint and co-therapy)
Mara Selvini Palazzoli (Milan systems)
Ross Speck (network therapy)
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