The Therapists

Michael Kingsly White

Born in 1948 in Adelaide Australia

Michael Kingsly White

Asthma seemed to motivate him to be fit

Michael Kingsly White

Close to family, second born, very close to younger brother

Michael Kingsly White

Treated for depression—felt humiliated by Mental Health system

Michael Kingsly White

Bachelor’s in Social Work

Michael Kingsly White

In 1972, married Cheryl (feminist/social justice advocate)

Michael Kingsly White

Worked with children with anorexia, encopresis, and night terrors

Michael Kingsly White

In 1981—private practice

In 1983 he and Cheryl founded the Dulwich Centre for Narrative therapy

Michael Kingsly White

From the late 1980s became interested in post-modernism

Challenges “modernism”

Multiple realities

Questioning of truth u Increasingly interested in traditionally oppressed groups

Michael Kingsly White

Influences

Cheryl White, wife until 2006

David Epston, a Canadian born émigré to New Zealand

Wrote several books together

political activists together

Didn’t do therapy together

Michael Kingsly White

Died in 2008 at 59

survived by his daughter, Penni, and partner, Sarah

Michael Kingsly White

After highschool, worked as a landscape gardener, laborer, and mechanical draftsman

Insoo Kim Berg

Born in Korea on July 25, 1934

Steve de Shazar

Milwaukee, Wisconsin june 25, 1940

Insoo Kim Berg

In 1957, left korea for the us, would earn her bachelor degree in 1967 and her master of science in social work

Steve de Shazar and Insoo Kim Berg

the team contracted with one health insurance for a flat fee of $500 per client, regardless of how long the treatment took.

Steve de Shazar and Insoo Kim Berg

use video recordings and live obsservation to examine what techniques had the quickest and best results. this help create the miracle question

JEAN BAKER MILLER

Born in Bronx, NY 1927 to working class family

JEAN BAKER MILLER

Diagnosed with polio at 11 months old

JEAN BAKER MILLER

Went to Columbia Medical School with full scholarship

JEAN BAKER MILLER

Became involved in social justice and advocacy for progressive healthcare policies—which eventually led her to lose her scholarship

JEAN BAKER MILLER

Went in a psychiatric residence when she married S. “Mike” Miller, a sociologist

JEAN BAKER MILLER

Obtained a Certificate in Psychoanalysis in 1959

JEAN BAKER MILLER

As a child, she became a competitive swimmer and later was accepted to the hunter college high school for gifted girls in manhattan

JEAN BAKER MILLER

received a full scholarship to Sarah Lawerence College, and recieved mentorship from Helen Merell Lynd (sociologist)

JEAN BAKER MILLER

published Toward a New Pyschology of Women

Marsha Linehan

Born in 1943 in Tusla, Oklahoma

Marsha Linehan

Third of six children, felt unloved and inadequate compared to her siblings

Marsha Linehan

Grew up feeling a sense of self-loathing, self-destructiveness, and social withdrawal-- psychiatrist recommended in-patient treatment and diagnosed her as schizophrenic

Marsha Linehan

While she was in in inpatient treatment: frequently attacked herself, burned her wrists with cigarettes, cut her arms, and banged her head against the wall and floor. Treated with major psychotropic medications and given electroshock treatments

Marsha Linehan

As a young adult, one night while in a church praying, she realized she loved herself and came up with the importance of radical acceptance and commitment to change

Marsha Linehan

research interests included suicidality, parasuicidality, personality disorders, behavior modification, and cognitivebehavioral treatment •

These interests, her interest in radical acceptance, and her work and research with suicidal individuals with borderline personality disorder, led to her theory of DBT

Spending time at a Buddhist monastery practicing radical acceptance and letting go of desires, her spiritual journey led her to incorporate mindfulness

Linehan continues to be an active researcher, educator, and advocate of DBT, and has authored over one hundred journal articles, several books, and manuals that have been translated into multiple languages

Marsha Linehan

earned her bachelor’s degree in psychology, and her master and doctoral degree in social and experiemental psychology, from loyola university

Steven Hayes

influenced by B.F. Skinner

Steven Hayes

His condition, led him to consider how clinical issues (e.g., anxiety disorders) were impacted by language, verbal behavior, and rulegoverned behavior (rigid thinking based on rules given to us by others)

Steven Hayes

Then applied Beck’s practice of having clients distance themselves from their thoughts and beliefs.

Steven Hayes

They termed comprehensive distancing to demonstrate that it went far beyond Beck’s “distancing,” grew over the following years into ACT

Steven Hayes

Around the same time, Hayes began to develop Relational Frame Theory (RFT), a behavioral and contextual approach to language and cognition

Steven Hayes

RFT informs the practice of ACT, although the link between RFT and ACT is said to be tenuous by some.

Steven Hayes

Went to West Virginia University for his doctoral training, becoming immersed in the behavior analysis work. Internship at brown, was influenced by david barlow