The Evolution of
Multiple Family Group Therapy

Year of
First Use
Founder & Model

1950 - 1979 H. Peter Laqueur
Multiple Family Therapy with
His Schizophrenic Patients

1963 Norman L. Paul & Betty B. Paul
Outpatient Multiple Family Therapy

1964 Alexander P. Hyde
Treatment & Rehabilitation of the
Mentally Ill in MFGT

1965 Murray Bowen's Model of
Multiple Family Therapy

1967 George H. Orvin
MFGT with Adolescents

1968 William R. McFarlane
Family Psychoeducation and the
Management of Schizophrenia

1975 Tom Saunders
Coliseum Model of MFGT

1976 L. Ray McKamy
Treatment of Alcoholism in MFGT

1976 Gerald Epstein
Lawrence Weitz
Barbara Wallston
Stephen Abramowitz
MFGT and Grief

1977 Edward Kaufman
Pauline Kaufmann
MFGT With Drug Abusers

1978 Carl Cohen
June Corwin
Balance Theory and MFGT

1979 H.A. Abramson
M.M. Peshkin
MFGT With Asthma Patients (Children)

1980 Melvin Lansky
Carol Bley
Geneva McVey
Bonnie Brothman
Aftercare Multiple Family Groups

1981 Yael Danieli - Isreal
MFGT With Holocaust Survivors

1981 Lewis N. Foster
MFGT with Chemically Dependent
& Other At-Risk Families

1981 Leslie Kadis
Ruth McClendon
Redecision Therapy in MFGT

1982 John Lovern
Joseph Zohn
Milton Erickson Approaches
in MFGT