Synopsis
Don D. Jackson (1920-1968) is best remembered as a brilliant therapist, teacher, and for his leading part in the development of such ground breaking theoretical concepts as family homeostasis, family rules, relational quid pro quo, and, with Gregory Bateson, John Weakland and Jay Haley,the theory of the Double Bind. Jackson's theoretical and clinical ontribution to the understanding of human behavior is phenomenal for its breadth and scope. Many leaders in the fields of family and brief therapy acknowledge Jackson as the principle founder of Interactional Theory and Conjoint Family Therapy. In a career that spanned a brief 24 years (1944-1968) Jackson was one of the most prolific authors of his time, publishing more than 125 articles and book chapters and seven books including two classic texts that remain in print today - Mirages of Marriage (Co-authored with William Lederer, and Pragmatics of Human Communication (co-authored with Paul Watzlawick and Janet Bevin Bavelas). He co-founded with Nathan Ackerman and Jay Haley the journal Family Process. He helped found the publishing house Science & Behavior Books. Jackson won virtually every honor available in the field of Psychiatry, including the Frieda Fromm-Reichmann Award for contributions to understanding schizophrenia, the first Edward R. Strecker Award for contributions to in-patient treatment of hospitalized patients, and the 1967 Salmon Lecture from the American Psychiatric Association and the New York Academy of Medicine.
About the Author
Wendel A. Ray, Ph.D., LCSW, LMFT, LPC, trained in Milan Systemic Family with Gianfranco Cecchin, and in clinical hypnosis at the M. H. Erickson Foundation. His doctoral studies were with Bradford Keeney in cybernetics applied to human behavior. Drawn to the Mental Research Institute (MRI) in 1987 to study the work of Don Jackson and the MRI Brief Therapy approach; he became an MRI Research Associate when John Weakland encouraged him to found the Don Jackson Archive. Dr. Ray has served as Teaching Faculty since that time, and as a member of the Brief Therapy Center from 1997 2004. MRI Director from 2000-2004, and a Senior Research Fellow, Dr. Ray continues to serve as Director of the Jackson Archive, a shared research project of MRI and The University of Louisiana at Monroe (ULM) Marriage and Family Therapy Program. He is author or editor of a number of other books, a number of which have been published in several languages, including Focused Problem Resolution Selected Papers of the MRI Brief Therapy Center (Co-edited with Richard Fisch and Karin Schlanger), (2009); and Paul Watzlawick: Insight May Cause Blindness and Other Essays (Co-edited with Giorgio Nardone) (2009).
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