Salvador Minuchin and Structural Family Therapy

Dr. Salvador Minuchin began his career as a psychoanalyst, but finding that individual psychoanalysis was neither well-suited nor culturally appropriate for the socio-economically disadvantaged African-American and Latino populations he was working with, decided that a different type of therapy and healing intervention was needed.  With the needs of the disadvantaged in mind, Minuchin created Structural Family Therapy.  Structural Family Therapy provides a healing model based on restoring political diplomacy and understanding within the family unit, organization, or community.

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The videos that follow provide a well-rounded look at the history of Structural Family Therapy, what a Structural Family Therapy session with Minuchin looks like, as well as some of the advantages and disadvantages of Minuchin’s Structural Family Therapy approach.

• This video provides a concise, yet meaningful look at what Minuchin’s approach to Structural Family Therapy looks like from both inside and outside of the therapy room:

• In the following video Minuchin speaks about his life long need to be a helper and a healer:

• The following video, produced by several students provides a wonderful synopsis of what Minuchin’s Structural Family Therapy is and is not, as well as a providing some meaningful historic background.