title: History of Family Psychiatry: From the Social Reform Era to the Primate Social Organ System.
abstract: From early twentieth century social reform movements emerged the ingredients for both child and family psychiatry. Both psychiatries that involve children, parents, and families began in child guidance clinics. Post-World War II intellectual creativity provided the epistemological framework for treating families. Eleven founders (1950-1969) led the development of family psychiatry. Child and family psychiatrists disagreed over the issues of individual and family group dynamics. Over the past 25 years the emerging sciences of interaction, in the context of the Primate Social Organ System (PSOS), have produced the evidence for the family being the entity of treatment in psychiatry.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, 6001 Research Park Boulevard, Madison, WI 53719, USA. Electronic address: dakrame1@wisc.edu.
authors.forename: Douglas A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Kramer
mesh_terms: D001921:Brain / Q000502:physiology*; D002665:Child Psychiatry / Q000266:history*; D005196:Family Therapy / Q000266:history*; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D006801:Humans; D012919:Social Behavior
keywords: Biological psychiatry; Comprehensive biological treatment; Family; Family intervention; Family psychiatry; Family therapy; Natural healing mechanisms; PSOS; Primate Social Organ System