Salvador Minuchin, MD

Salvador Minuchin (1921-2017), MD, is a world-renowned founder of family therapy and the developer of Structural Family Therapy. Born and raised in Argentina, he obtained his degree in medicine and served as physician in the Israeli army before training in child psychiatry in New York with Nathan Ackerman. Later, he trained in psychoanalysis at the William Alanson White Institute. In 1965 Minuchin became the director of the Child Guidance Clinic in Philadelphia. He stepped down from this position in 1976 to become the head of training at the center until 1981, when he left Philadelphia to practice and teach child psychiatry in New York. Named one of the ten most influential therapists of the past quarter-century, he authored several books, including his classic family therapy text, Families and Family Therapy. Minuchin retired in 1996.