A Brief History of the Family Therapy Movement
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Family Therapy MovementAbstract
The history of the family therapy movement is traced from its . origins in the late 1940s until the present. Family therapists are classfied under three main groups: conductors, reactor analysts, and system purists. Major family therapists making an impact upon the
developing field today are categorized under this classification.
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