EP85 Supervision Panel 05 – Murray Bowen, M.D. James F. Masterson, M.D. Erving Polster, Ph.D. Carl A. Whitaker, M.D.

Murray Bowen, MD Associated seminars and merchandise: 13

Murray Bowen (31 January 1913 in Waverly, Tennessee – 9 October 1990) was an American psychiatrist and a professor in psychiatry on the Georgetown College. Bowen was among the many pioneers of household remedy and founders of systemic remedy. Starting within the Fifties, he developed a programs idea of the household. From 1954 to 1959, Bowen labored within the Nationwide Institute of Psychological Well being, Bethesda, Maryland, the place he continued to develop the idea that might be named after him: Bowen Idea.[4] At the moment, household remedy was nonetheless solely a by-product of idea. Bowen did his preliminary analysis on dad and mom who lived with one grownup schizophrenic baby, which he thought may present a paradigm for all youngsters. After defining the sphere of household remedy he began integrating ideas with the brand new idea. He claimed that none of this had beforehand been described within the psychological literature. What started the primary 12 months grew to become recognized nationally in about two years.

From 1959 to 1990 he labored on the Georgetown College Medical Middle in Washington DC as medical professor on the division of Psychiatry, and later as director of Household Applications and founding father of a Household Middle.

• About Murray Bowen at The Bowen Middle

James F. Masterson, MD Associated seminars and merchandise: 50

James F. Masterson (M.D., Jefferson Medical College, 1951) was Director of the Masterson Group, P.C., which specializes within the remedy of adolescent and grownup character problems. Moreover, he was Director of the Masterson Institute (previously Character Dysfunction Basis); attending psychiatrist at New York Hospital, Payne Whitney Clinic; and Adjunct Scientific Professor of Psychiatry at Cornell College Medical Faculty. Masterson has authored seven books and edited two volumes, totally on the subject of psychoanalytic approaches to character disoreders and adolescents. His seminal work on the borderline persona has made him one of the influential and studied practitioners of contemporary psychoanalytic strategies.

• Profile at Worldwide Masterson Institute

Erving Polster, PhD Associated seminars and merchandise: 132

Erving Polster, Ph.D in medical psychology, is the Director of The Gestalt Institute of San Diego, and the writer of a number of necessary books, together with Gestalt Remedy Built-in, Each Particular person's Life is Value a Novel, and From the Radical Middle: The Coronary heart of Gestalt Remedy, in addition to dozens of articles and chapters. Erving has authored 6 books. In his present writings, he presents views and designs for a communal software of psychotherapy rules. He additionally describes and celebrates a strong modern momentum for individuals-at-giant to hitch collectively within the seek for private and social enlightenment.

Carl Whitaker, MD Associated seminars and merchandise: 29

Carl Whitaker, MD, was an American doctor and psychotherapy pioneer household therapist. Whitaker is most properly-recognized for acknowledging the function of your complete household within the therapeutic course of. He’s the founding father of experiential household remedy, or the symbolic-experiential method to remedy. Moderately than scapegoating one member of the family or perhaps a particular household downside, experiential household remedy seems on the complete household system. A number of different approaches to household remedy have drawn closely from Whitaker's theories.

• Web site at Carl Whitaker.org