The Origins of Family Psychotherapy

Dr. Mariana Martinez interviews Dr. John Butler, PhD.

In the world of science, being up to date is of paramount importance. It is so easy to become obsolete. Well, today we are doing things backwards. Instead of talking about the latest developments in Bowen family systems theory, we will talk about its origins. Our guest today, Dr. Jack Buttler embarked in a journey of rescuing, organizing and publishing the research project that gave birth to Bowen theory. Dr. Buttler, a clinical social worker and marriage and family therapists has dedicated years of study and application of this theory. He has written extensively about this topic, and his last publication was an effort to go back to step one, so to speak, and attempt to grasp from Dr. Bowen´s own handwriting, how he discovered the family as an emotional unit. The idea of the family as a system which was central to the birth to a whole new field in psychology: the family therapy movement.

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