Jay Halley (1923-2007) is an American pioneer of the family Thérapie, founding member of the École of Palo-Viola

Biography

In 1953 Jay Halley is in control in communication at the University Stanford of Palo Alto when Gregory Bateson invites it to work with him within its project on the study of the paradox of the abstraction in the communication. Halley joined the Bateson project, already composed of the student in psychiatry William Fry and the anthropologist John Weakland to study very varied fields energy of humor to the Zen (they meet Alan Watts and Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki) while passing by the Hypnose (they meet many times Milton Erickson of 1954 to 1960). In 1954, William Fry leaves the project and is replaced by the psychiatrist Donald deAvila Jackson and the project receives a financing for two years on behalf of the Fondation Macy for the study of the communication among schizophrenes. These studies will lead to the publication in 1956 of the article founder of the family therapy, Towards a theory of the schizophrenia , into which the team introduces the concept of " Double constraint ".

In 1962, Halley joined Jackson and Weakland within the Mental Research Institute off Palo Alto where also work Paul Watzlawick, Virginia Satir, Jules Riskin and Richard Fisch. This same year, he is cofounder with Jackson and Nathan Ackerman of the review Family Process .

In 1967, it joined El Salvador Minuchin in “Philadelphia Child Guidance Clinic” where it continues its interests by training students during ten years. He is then also an active member of the department of psychiatry of the University of Pennsylvania.

In 1976, Halley founds with Cloé Madanes “Family Therapy Institute” of Washington DC, of which it takes his retirement in 1995.

Works

  • Strategies of psychotherapy , 1963

  • With Lynn Hoffman, Technical off Family Therapy , 1967
  • Advanced techniques off Hypnosis & Therapy , 1967
  • Tacticians of the capacity , 1969
  • Changing Families: family therapy reader , 1971 has
  • a therapeutist out of the commun run. Milton H. Erickson. , 1973
  • Problem Solving Therapy , 1976
  • Reflections one therapy and other essays , 1981
  • Ordeal therapy , 1984
  • Conversations with Milton H. Erickson. Vol. 1-2-3 , 1985
  • Learning & Teaching Therapy , 1996
  • With Wendel Ray, Natural Defining the off Relationships: The Interactional Therapy off Gift D. Jackson

Bibliographical references

  • the new communication (1981), Yves Winkin, Threshold, Paris.

External bonds

  • http://www.abacon.com/famtherapy/haley.html
  • http://members.aol.com/prizefilm/
  • Jay Halley - a therapeutist out of the commun run

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