The history of couple therapy: A millennial review From: Family Process | Date: July 1, 2002| Author: Fraenkel, Peter; Gurman, Alan S | Copyright Family Process, Inc. Summer 2002. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

In this article, we review the major conceptual and clinical influences and trends in the history of couple therapy to date, and also chronicle the history of research on couple therapy. The evolving patterns in theory and practice are reviewed as having progressed through four distinctive phases: Phase I-Atheoretical Marriage Counseling Formation (1930-1963); Phase II-Psychoanalytic Experimentation (1931-1966); Phase III-Family Therapy Incorporation (1963-1985); and Phase IV-Refinement, Exte...

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