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'''Lynn Hoffman''' (born September 10, 1924 in Paris, France)<ref name="Papers, 1964-2002">{{cite web |url=http://asteria.fivecolleges.edu/findaids/sophiasmith/mnsss436.html |title=Lynn Hoffman Papers, 1964-2002 (ongoing) |work= |accessdate=}}</ref>, [[ACSW]], is an American [[social work]]er, [[family therapist]], author and historian of family therapy. Her mother, Ruth Reeves (1892-1966) was a painter and Art Deco textile designer. She graduated summa cum laude in English Literature in 1946 from Radcliffe and after editing psychiatric works, she started [[Master of Social Work|MSW]] studies in 1969 and specialized in family therapy.<ref name="urlFamily Therapy: An Intimate History">{{cite journal |url=http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=2277277 |title=Family Therapy: An Intimate History (Book Review) |author=Philip Barker |journal = [[Journal of the Canadian Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry]]|volume=15 |number=1|pages=40–41 |month=February|year=2006 }}</ref>
 
'''Lynn Hoffman''' (born September 10, 1924 in Paris, France)<ref name="Papers, 1964-2002">{{cite web |url=http://asteria.fivecolleges.edu/findaids/sophiasmith/mnsss436.html |title=Lynn Hoffman Papers, 1964-2002 (ongoing) |work= |accessdate=}}</ref>, [[ACSW]], is an American [[social work]]er, [[family therapist]], author and historian of family therapy. Her mother, Ruth Reeves (1892-1966) was a painter and Art Deco textile designer. She graduated summa cum laude in English Literature in 1946 from Radcliffe and after editing psychiatric works, she started [[Master of Social Work|MSW]] studies in 1969 and specialized in family therapy.<ref name="urlFamily Therapy: An Intimate History">{{cite journal |url=http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=2277277 |title=Family Therapy: An Intimate History (Book Review) |author=Philip Barker |journal = [[Journal of the Canadian Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry]]|volume=15 |number=1|pages=40–41 |month=February|year=2006 }}</ref>
   
Originally a [[systems theory|systems]]-[[strategic therapy|strategic]] theorist and therapist, she has since become a proponent of post-systems/[[post-modernism|post-modern]]/collaborative approaches. She has been an editor of [[Family Process]] and [[Journal of Marital and Family Therapy]]. Until her retirement in 2000, she had for many years been on the faculty of the [[Nathan Ackerman|Ackerman Institute]] and the [[Smith College#Graduate degrees and study options|Smith College School of Social Work]]. At present she is a lecturer at [[Saint Joseph College (Connecticut)|Saint Joseph College]] in [[West Hartford, Connecticut|West Hartford]], [[Connecticut]].<ref name="urlHoffman, Lynn - DVD - AN INTIMATE HISTORY OF FAMILY THERAPY">{{cite web |url=http://masterswork.com/shopsite_sc/store/html/product35.html |title=Hoffman, Lynn - DVD - AN INTIMATE HISTORY OF FAMILY THERAPY (inteview) |author= Harlene Anderson |work= |accessdate=2009-03-13}}</ref>
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Originally a [[systems theory|systems]]-[[strategic therapy|strategic]] theorist and therapist, she has since become a proponent of post-systems/[[post-modernism|post-modern]]/collaborative approaches. She has been an editor of [[Family Process]] and [[Journal of Marital and Family Therapy]]. Until her retirement in 2000, she had for many years been on the faculty of the Ackerman Institute and the Smith College School of Social Work. At present she is a lecturer at Saint Joseph College in West Hartford, Connecticut.<ref name="urlHoffman, Lynn - DVD - AN INTIMATE HISTORY OF FAMILY THERAPY">{{cite web |url=http://masterswork.com/shopsite_sc/store/html/product35.html |title=Hoffman, Lynn - DVD - AN INTIMATE HISTORY OF FAMILY THERAPY (inteview) |author= Harlene Anderson |work= |accessdate=2009-03-13}}</ref>
   
 
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==Bibliography==

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Lynn Hoffman (born September 10, 1924 in Paris, France)[1], ACSW, is an American social worker, family therapist, author and historian of family therapy. Her mother, Ruth Reeves (1892-1966) was a painter and Art Deco textile designer. She graduated summa cum laude in English Literature in 1946 from Radcliffe and after editing psychiatric works, she started MSW studies in 1969 and specialized in family therapy.[2]

Originally a systems-strategic theorist and therapist, she has since become a proponent of post-systems/post-modern/collaborative approaches. She has been an editor of Family Process and Journal of Marital and Family Therapy. Until her retirement in 2000, she had for many years been on the faculty of the Ackerman Institute and the Smith College School of Social Work. At present she is a lecturer at Saint Joseph College in West Hartford, Connecticut.[3]

Bibliography

  • Haley, J. & Hoffman, L. (1967; 1994). Techniques of family therapy. New York: Basic Books. (1994 printing – Northvale, NJ: Aronson.)
  • Hoffman, L. (1981). Foundations of Family Therapy: A Conceptual Framework for Systems Change. New York: Basic Books.
  • Hoffman, L. (1985). Beyond power and control: Toward a "second order" family systems therapy. Family Systems Medicine. 3: 381-396.
  • Hoffman, L. (1990). Constructing Realities: An Art of Lenses. Family Process. 29 (1) 1–12.
  • Hoffman, L. (1991). A reflective stance for family therapists. Journal of Strategic and Systemic Therapies. 10:4-17.
  • Hoffman, L. (1993). Exchanging Voices: A Collaborative Approach to Family Therapy. London: Karnac Books.
  • Hoffman, L. (2002). Family Therapy: An Intimate History. New York: W.W. Norton & Co.

See also

Notes

  1. Lynn Hoffman Papers, 1964-2002 (ongoing).
  2. Philip Barker (February 2006). Family Therapy: An Intimate History (Book Review). Journal of the Canadian Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 15: 40–41.
  3. Harlene Anderson. Hoffman, Lynn - DVD - AN INTIMATE HISTORY OF FAMILY THERAPY (inteview). URL accessed on 2009-03-13.

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