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Family of origin refers to the early social group a person belongs to in childhood, which is often a person's biological family or an adoptive family. [1] The family of origin is often referred to in contrast to the family of choice independently in adulthood (such as marriage , living independently, etc).
James Framo (1922–2001) was an American psychologist and pioneer family therapist. He developed an object relations approach to intergenerational and family-of-origin therapy. He collaborated with other pioneers in the field and authored or co-authored several early and significant texts in the field of family therapy.
Family therapy (also referred to as family counseling, family systems therapy, marriage and family therapy, couple and family therapy) is a branch of psychotherapy focused on families and couples in intimate relationships to nurture change and development.
1974, Toward the Differentiation of Self in One's Family of Origin. 1978, Family Therapy in Clinical Practice, Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson Inc., 1978. 1988, ''Family Evaluation: An Approach Based on Bowen Theory, co-written with Kerr, M.E. at The Family Center at Georgetown University Hospital," New York: Norton & Co., 1988.
Boszormenyi-Nagy is best known for developing the Contextual approach to family therapy and individual psychotherapy.It is a comprehensive model which integrates individual psychological, interpersonal, existential, systemic, and intergenerational dimensions of individual and family life and development.
Family Constellations, also known as Systemic Constellations and Systemic Family Constellations, is a pseudoscientific [1] therapeutic method which draws on elements of family systems therapy, existential phenomenology and Zulu beliefs and attitudes to family.
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Systemic therapy has its roots in family therapy, or more precisely family systems therapy as it later came to be known. In particular, systemic therapy traces its roots to the Milan school of Mara Selvini Palazzoli, [2] [3] [4] but also derives from the work of Salvador Minuchin, Murray Bowen, Ivan Boszormenyi-Nagy, as well as Virginia Satir and Jay Haley from MRI in Palo Alto.