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Being a Family Systems Thinker: A Psychiatrist's Personal Odyssey
Author(s) -
CombrinckGraham Lee
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
family process
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.011
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1545-5300
pISSN - 0014-7370
DOI - 10.1111/famp.12090
Subject(s) - conviction , family systems , family therapy , psychology , systems thinking , mental health , psychoanalysis , psychotherapist , developmental psychology , computer science , law , political science , artificial intelligence
This account traces the development of family systems thinking from early pioneering thinking and practices, through the development of institutions and professional definitions, and through challenges to family systems thinking and practice from the biomedical points of view. Throughout there is a strong conviction that “thinking family” is an essential core of effective mental health treatment, because families can heal.