Milan systems approach to family therapy

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Family therapy

Approaches

Adlerian family therapy CBT Conjoint family therapy Contextual therapy Emotionally Focused Therapy Experential family therapy Family systems therapy Feminist family therapy Medical family therapy Milan systems approach MRI brief therapy Multisystemic therapy Object relations Postmodern Collaborative Therapy Psychoeducation with families Psychoanalytic family therapy Solution focused family therapy Strategic family therapy Structural family therapy Systems family therapy

Notable therapists

Alfred Adler Nathan Ackerman Tom Andersen Harlene Anderson Harry J Aponte Gregory Bateson (1904 – 1980) Ivan Böszörményi-Nagy Murray Bowen Steve de Shazer Milton H. Erickson Richard Fisch James Framo Harry Goolishian John Gottman Robert-Jay Green Jay Haley Lynn Hoffman Don D. Jackson Sue Johnson Bradford Keeney Walter Kempler Cloe Madanes Salvador Minuchin Braulio Montalvo Virginia Satir Mara Selvini Palazzoli Ross Speck Robin Skynner Paul Watzlawick John Weakland Carl Whitaker Michael White Lyman Wynne

Misc

Couples therapy Family Family structure History of family therapy Parenting Parenting styles Parent child communication Person-of-the-Therapist

The Milan systems approach to family therapy was developed by the Italian psychiatrist Mara Selvini Palazzoli. It is an example of family systems therapy which grew out of family systems theory.

The approach was used with families of schizophrenic and anorexic children. and is based on Gregory Bateson's cybernetics theory.