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Steve de Shazer

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Steve de Shazer (June 25, 1940, Milwaukee -September 11, 2005, Vienna) was a psychotherapist, author, and developer and pioneer of solution focused brief therapy. In 1978, he founded the Brief Family Therapy Center (BFTC) in Milwaukee, Wisconsin with his wife Insoo Kim Berg.

He wrote six significant books, translated into 14 languages; wrote many papers; and lectured internationally.

De Shazer was originally trained as a classical musician and worked as a jazz saxophonist. He received a Bachelor in Fine Arts and an MSc in Social Work from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He never studied at the Mental Research Institute of Palo Alto, California, even though some rumours has it he did. He was a lifelong friend of John Weakland though, and saw him as his mentor.

[edit] Selected bibliography

  • de Shazer, Steve (1982). Patterns of Brief Family Therapy: An Ecosystemic Approach, New York, NY: The Guilford Press. ISBN 0898620384.
  • de Shazer, Steve (1984). The death of resistance. Family Process 23: I 1-17.
  • de Shazer, Steve (1985). Keys to Solution in Brief Therapy, New York, NY: W W Norton & Company. ISBN 0393700046.
  • de Shazer, Steve (1988). Clues: Investigating Solutions in Brief Therapy, New York, NY: W W. Norton & Company. ISBN 0393700542.
  • de Shazer, Steve (1991). Putting Difference to Work, New York, NY: W W Norton & Co Inc. ISBN 0393701107.
  • de Shazer, Steve (1994). Words Were Originally Magic, New York, NY: W W Norton & Company. ISBN 0393701700.
  • de Shazer, Steve (2005). More than Miracles: the State of the Art of Solution-focused Therapy, Binghampton, NY: Haworth Press.

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