Definition: Family Systems refers to a school of psychotherapy founded in the Cybernetic theories that became popular in the 1960s. Dr. Gregory Bateson was a key theorist. Most therapies before Family Systems took as their object the individual patient. Family systems theorists rejected this approach and focused instead on how an individual patient existed within the social group that they associated with - usually their family.
Family Systems
By Nancy Schimelpfening, About.com Guide
Updated August 30, 2011
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