| Events in history | YEAR | Events in Family Therapy |
| F.D.R. dies, Truman becomes President WWII ends in Europe (5/8) and the Pacific (8/14) | 1945 | Bertalanffy presents general systems theory |
| 1946 |
Bowen at Menninger Clinic Whitaker at Emory | |
| 1947 |
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| Truman reelected U.S. President State of Israel established | 1948 | Whitaker begins conferences on schizophrenia |
| Communist People's Republic of China established | 1949 |
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| 1950 |
Bateson begins work at Palo Alto VA | |
| 1951 |
Ruesch & Bateson: Communication: The Social Matrix of Society Bowen residential treatment of mothers and children Lidz at Yale | |
| Eisenhower elected U.S. President | 1952 |
Bateson receives Rockefeller grant to study communication in Palo Alto Wynne at NIMH |
| 1953 |
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| Supreme Court rules school segregation unconstitutional | 1954 |
Bateson project research on schizophrenic communication Bowen at National Institute of Mental Health |
| 1955 |
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| 1956 |
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| 1957 |
Jackson: "The question of family homeostasis" Ackerman opens the Family Mental Health Clinic of Jewish Family Services in New York Boszormenyi-Nagy opens Family Therapy Department at EPPI in Philadelphia Ackerman: The psychodynamics of family life | |
| 1958 |
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| Castro becomes Premier of Cuba | 1959 |
The Mental Research Institute (MRI) founded by Don Jackson
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| Kennedy elected U.S. President | 1960 |
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| Berlin Wall erected | 1961 | Bell: Family Group Therapy Family Process founded by Ackerman and Jackson |
| Cuban Missile Crisis | 1962 |
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| Kennedy assassinated | 1963 |
Haley: Strategies of Psychotherapy |
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Johnson elected U.S. President Nobel Peace Prize: Martin Luther King | 1964 |
Satir: Conjoint Family Therapy |
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Passage of Medicare Malcolm X assassinated | 1965 |
The Family Institute founded by Nathan Ackerman (renamed the Ackerman Institute in 1971) Minuchin becomes director of Philadelphia Child Guidance Clinic |
| Red Guards demonstrate in China | 1966 |
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Six-Day War between Israel and Arab states Urban riots in Cleveland, Newark and Detroit | 1967 |
Watzlawick et al. Pragmatics of Human Communication Dicks, Marital Tensions Brief Therapy Center founded at MRI |
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Nixon elected U.S. President Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King assassinated Don Jackson dies | 1968 |
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| Widespread demonstrations against war in Vietnam | 1969 |
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| Student protests against Vietnam War result in killing of 4 students at Kent State | 1970 |
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| 26th Amendment grants right to vote to 18-year-olds | 1971 |
Nathan Ackerman dies |
| Nixon re-elected U.S. President | 1972 |
Bateson: Steps to an Ecology of Mind |
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Supreme Court rules that states may not prohibit abortion Energy crisis created by oil shortages | 1973 |
Center for Family Learning founded by Phil Guerin |
| Nixon resigns | 1974 |
Minuchin: Families and Family Therapy Watzlawick et al. Change |
| Vietnam War ends | 1975 |
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| Carter elected U.S. President | 1976 |
Haley: Problem-Solving Therapy |
| 1977 |
Family Institute of Westchester founded by Betty Carter | |
| Camp David Accords between Egypt and Israel | 1978 |
Hare-Mustin: "A Feminist Approach to Family Therapy" Selvini Palazzoli et al., Paradox and Counterparadox |
| 1979 |
Haley, Leaving Home | |
| Reagan elected U.S. President | 1980 |
Milton Erickson dies (b. 1901) Gregory Bateson dies (b. 1904) |
| 1981 |
Hoffman, The Foundations of Family Therapy | |
| 1982 |
1982 Gilligan, In a Different Voice Fisch, Weakland & Segal, Tactics of Change The Family Therapy Networker founded by Richard Simon | |
| 1983 |
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| 1984 |
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| 1985 |
de Shazer, Keys to Solution in Brief Therapy | |
| 1986 |
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| 1987 |
Tom Andersen: "The Reflecting Team" | |
| Bush elected U.S. President | 1988 |
Kerr & Bowen, Family Evaluation Virginia Satir dies (born 1916) |
| 1989 |
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| The Berlin Wall comes down | 1990 |
Murray Bowen dies (b. 1913) White & Epston, Narrative Means to Therapeutic Ends |
| Desert Storm war against Iraq | 1991 |
Harold Goolishian dies (b. 1924) Andersen, The Reflecting Team |
| Clinton elected U.S. President | 1992 |
Family Institute of New Jersey founded by Monica McGoldrick
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| 1993 |
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| Republicans win majority in Congress | 1994 | David and Jill Scharf leave Washington School of Psychiatry to begin the International Institute of Object Relations Therapy |
| 1995 |
Carl Whitaker dies John Weakland dies Jay Haley retires Salvador Minuchin retires Family Studies Inc., renamed The Minuchin Center | |
| Clinton re-elected U.S. President | 1996 |
Edwin Friedman dies (b. 1932) |
| 1997 |
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