Lyman C. Wynne and Transformation of the Field of Family-and-Schizophrenia

From: Family Process | Date: June 1, 2007| Author: Sluzki, Carlos E | Copyright information

The December 2006 issue of Family Process includes two articles coauthored by Lyman C. Wynne (Wynne, Tienari, Nieminen, et al., 2006; Wynne, Tienari, Sorri, et al., 2006), whose life we honor in the current issue of this journal. Those two articles summarize one of his (and his collaborators') most outstanding contributions to the field of family research and family therapy. In fact, the project summarized in those articles is part of Lyman's lifelong inquiry into the theme "family and schizo...

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