Salvador Minuchin is a family therapist

Family therapy

Family therapy, also referred to as couple and family therapy, family systems therapy, and family counseling, is a branch of psychotherapy that works with families and couples in intimate relationships to nurture change and development. It tends to view change in terms of the systems of...

 born and raised in San Salvador, Entre Ríos

San Salvador, Entre Ríos

San Salvador is a city in the province of Entre Ríos, Argentina. It has 11,626 inhabitants per the , and is the head town of the San Salvador Department...

, Argentina

Argentina

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. He developed Structural Family Therapy

Structural family therapy

Structural Family Therapy is a method of psychotherapy developed by Salvador Minuchin which addresses problems in functioning within a family...

, which addresses problems within a family by charting the relationships between family members, or between subsets of family. These charts represent power dynamics as well as the boundaries between different subsystems. The therapist tries to disrupt dysfunctional relationships within the family, and cause them to settle back into a healthier pattern. In 2007, a survey of 2,600 psychology practitioners named Minuchin as one of the ten most influential therapists of the past quarter-century.

External links

• The Minuchin Center
• The Philadelphia Child and Family Therapy Training Center, Inc.- created as an outgrowth of the Family Therapy Training Center founded by Salvador Minuchin, M.D. in 1975.