At first glance deborah weinsteins study of family therapy traces a very familiar path mental health specialists leave the institutional treatment of severe we use cookies to enhance your experience on our websiteby continuing to use our website you are agreeing to our use of cookies. The pathological family postwar america and the rise of family therapy or at least neurosis could be cured by psychoanalysis was being challenged the rise of the new psychotherapies family therapy group therapy behavior therapy and cognitive therapy was based on the belief that the source of the peoples problems were more than . The history of family therapy makes the complicated power of the family at midcentury vividly apparent clinicians developed a new approach to psychotherapy that claimed to locate the cause and treatment of mental illness in observable patterns of family interaction and communication rather than in individual psyches. The history of family therapy makes the complicated power of the family at midcentury vividly apparent clinicians developed a new approach to psychotherapy that claimed to locate the cause and treatment of mental illness in observable patterns of family interaction and communication rather than in individual psyches. The american journal of psychiatry focus the journal of neuropsychiatry and clinical neurosciences psychiatric research and clinical practice psychiatric services the american journal of psychotherapy all journals news apa guidelines patient education topics depression mdd gun violence