Family therapy

Family therapy (or family systems therapy) is a branch of psychotherapy that treats family problems. Family therapists consider the family as a system of interacting members; as such, the problems in the family are seen to arise as an emergent property of the interactions in the system, rather than ascribed exclusively to the "faults" or psychological problems of individual members.

Founders

Some key developers of theories of family therapy are:

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• Nathan Ackerman (psychoanalytic)
• Walter Kempler (gestalt)
• Murray Bowen (systems, Bowen Theory)
• Salvador Minuchin (structural)
• James Framo (object-relations)
• Jay Haley (communications)