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The Unfinished Legacy of Salvador Minuchin's Brilliant Career
The Unfinished Legacy of Salvador Minuchin's Brilliant Career

By The Fishman Report Admin on Jul 15, 2020

The loss of Salvador Minuchin encourages reflection on both his legacy and the future of the paradigm he pioneered. This article examines Minuchin’s work, as well as the developmental trajectory of family t...

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Family Therapy and COVID-19 (C-19)
Family Therapy and COVID-19 (C-19)

By The Fishman Report Admin on Jul 15, 2020

There are strange parallels and a vital lesson between the successful prevention of Covid-19 and the central theory of family therapy's successful outcomes. Before I begin, I need to emphasize that in no way...

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Performance-Based Family Therapy: Is anybody better off?
Performance-Based Family Therapy: Is anybody better off?

By Charles Fishman on Jul 03, 2023

I was a young psychiatry resident at the University of Pennsylvania Medical School; after two years, I could be seen fleeing from the many different models and innovators, including Professor Aaron Beck, fou...

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Becoming a Local Clinical Scientist - the fit of RBA
Becoming a Local Clinical Scientist - the fit of RBA

By Charles Fishman on Jun 27, 2023

When I relocated to New Zealand with my family in 2001, I wondered if the Results-Based Accountability™ (RBA) framework might retrofit into the clinical arena to treat troubled adolescents and their families...

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Examining Clinical Supervision and Putting It to the Acid Test
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Examining Clinical Supervision and Putting It to the Acid Test

By Charles Fishman on Apr 10, 2023

Supervision is aimed to guide the future. But the question to ask is: if supervisors use the techniques they learned from their supervisors, who learned them from theirs, is this always recursive progression...

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Some Pointers for Happier Family Life
Some Pointers for Happier Family Life

By The Fishman Report Admin on Jul 15, 2020

A few months ago I did a short presentation at an educational retreat. During my presentation, I was asked, probably because of my wordiness, for some overall, key points that families should adhere to as th...

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The Divided Self
The Divided Self

By The Fishman Report Admin on Jul 15, 2020

From a family therapy point of view a crucial dynamic in how well a young person does is the extent to which his or her parents are together. Children for the most part cannot choose between their parents an...

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Salvador Minuchin, the Scientist
Salvador Minuchin, the Scientist

By The Fishman Report Admin on Jul 15, 2020

Greetings my name is Charles Fishman.  This is a short blog on my friend, Dr. Salvador Minuchin, who died recently at age 96.  He was still working avidly, preparing for a family therapy presentation to thou...

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A Remembrance of Braulio Montalvo
A Remembrance of Braulio Montalvo

By The Fishman Report Admin on Jul 14, 2020

A Remembrance of Braulio Montalvo (1934-2014) I am in Albuquerque New Mexico. I have just come back with my wife Tana, Braulio’s widow Margarita Montalvo, and their daughter Maria, from visiting Braulio’s a...

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