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Barbara Anger-Diaz has been with the Brief Therapy Center since 1991. She has a multi-cultural background, having been born in Germany, raised in Mexico and done most of her study and training in Mexico City. Long before her immersion in Brief Therapy, she received psychoanalytic psychotherapy training and worked with an interpersonal understanding of people and relationships. She received her doctorate at the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City in 1987, where she also taught as an Adjunct Professor in their Department of Psychology. Her doctoral dissertation was on psychological effects of a computer programming course (given by the Fundacion Arturo Rosenblueth, Mexico City) on schizophrenic patients (published in Salud Mental, 1987). She co-directs (together with Karin Schlanger) the Latino Brief Therapy Center at MRI since 1994, where she works with other Latin American and Spanish team members, imparting therapy in the Spanish language to individuals, couples and families. She speaks on and does training in Brief Therapy. Of particular interest to her is the question of how to "motivate" or influence clients to change and a very close concern is the therapist's therapeutic stance, i.e., the therapist's "position" while interacting with clients. ================ BARBARA ANGER-DIAZ ha estado con el Centro de Terapias Breves del MRI desde 1991. Tiene un fondo multicultural, habiendo nacido en Alemania, criada en Mexico y hecho la mayoría de sus estudios y entrenamiento en la ciudad de Nueva York. Mucho antes de su inmersión en la terapia breve, había hecho su entrenamiento en terapia psicoanalítica y había trabajado con una comprensión interpersonal de la gente y sus relaciones. Recibió su doctorado en la Universidad Iberoamericana en la Ciudad de México en 1987 donde también enseñó como Profesora Adjunta en el Departamento de Psicología. Su disertación para el doctorado fue hecha sobre los efectos psicológicos de un curso de programación (dado por la Fundación Arturo Rosenblueth en la Ciudad de Mexico) sobre pacientes esquizofrénicos (publicada en Salud Mental, 1987). Es co-directora, con Karin Schlanger, del Centro Latino de Terapias Breves del MRI desde 1994. Ha dado cursos y entrenamientos en terapia breve internacionalmente. En particular, le interesa como "motivar" o influenciar a los clientes a que cambien y en particular que posición toma el terapeuta para lograr ésto de la manera más eficaz. Susan C. Barton is Executive Director of ACCEPT, an Adoption and Counseling Center, in Los Altos, California. Before joining ACCEPT in 2000, Ms. Barton practiced labor and employment law for 17 years, both as a partner at Hanson, Bridgett, Marcus, Vlahos and Rudy in San Francisco, and then as in-house employment counsel at SyStemix, a Palo Alto biotechnology company. Ms. Barton has also had extensive experience in human resource management, gained at Stanford University and Duty Free Shoppers, Inc., prior to obtaining her law degree. Ms. Barton received her bachelor's degree from Occidental College and her Juris Doctor degree from University of California, Hastings College of the Law.
Eileen Bobrow, a Senior Research Fellow, is the Founder and Director of MRI's Strategic Family Therapy and Training Center. She is a licensed marriage and family therapist and has been in private practice in Palo Alto since 1976. Ms. Bobrow consults and teaches Strategic Family Therapy in agencies throughout the United States. Eileen trained with Jay Haley and Cloe Madanes, commuting (from Palo Alto to Washington D.C.) weekly, for three years to their Family Therapy Institute of Washington D.C. Later she was invited to be one of the Institutes Regional Faculty .She joined MRI five years ago and began the Strategic Family Therapy and Training Center, bringing back to MRI the ideas and influence of Jay Haley, one of the original Bateson Team at MRI. Recently, Eileen and the Strategic Center received a grant from Santa Clara County to do a year-long intensive training for all the therapists of the Santa Clara County Juvenile Mental Health Division. In 2003, the Strategic Family Therapy Center will be responsible for teaching and supervising this model to about 80-100 Santa Clara County therapists. In her spare time, she sails her 31 foot sailboat in the San Francisco Bay, bicycles to raise funds for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, and is a patron of the San Francisco Opera.
Dr. Bodin practices in Palo Alto, seeing couples, families and individuals. He is Board Certified in Clinical, in Forensic, and in Family Psychology (ABPP). He developed a Relationship Conflict Inventory (RCI) to assess conflict processes (verbal and physical) and conflict content -- in terms of frequency, distress level, and attribution of cause. He also developed a Teasing and Bullying Survey (TABS) with a school version and a clinical version. Dr. Bodin is a past President of the California Psychological Association, APA's Division of Family Psychology and APA's Division of State Psychological Association Affairs. He served six terms on APA's Council of Representatives. Dr. Bodin is a Senior Research Fellow at MRI, is a Clinical Professor in the UCSF's School of Medicine's Department of Psychiatry, and is the recipient of three national awards in family psychology. He is the Public Member, Family Law Advisory Commission, Board of Legal Specialization, State Bar of California. He is one of the founding members of MRI's Brief Therapy Center. Stephanie Brown, Ph.D. is a clinician, author, teacher, researcher, and consultant in the field of Addictions. She is Director of The Addictions Institute in Menlo Park, California, an outpatient clinic, and a Research Associate at the Mental Research Institute (MRI) in Palo Alto, where she co-directs The Family Recovery Research Project. A psychologist, she is the author of four books, including Treating the Alcoholic (Wiley, 1985), and Treating Adult Children of Alcoholics (Wiley, 1988), and Editor of Treating Alcoholism, from Jossey-Bass (1995). She is coauthor of The Alcoholic Family in Recovery: A Developmental Model (Guilford, 1999) and she has recently completed Treating Alcoholism, a Video series (Jaylen Productions, 1997.) Her newest book, The Family Recovery Guide (coauthored) was published by New Harbinger in November, 2000. As director of the GenderMaps Project, Dr. Davies explores the extent of gender differences for use in training therapists and business people. Awareness of these differences aids in avoiding misunderstandings and consequently imposing value judgments, such as, is s/he crazy or nasty, stupid or weak? In her many years at the MRI, she has studied patients with physical disorders and consulted with physical therapy graduate students, and studied a parent-directed nursery school among other things. Dr. Everstine specializes in the assessment and treatment of trauma. Her approach to treating trauma integrates the systemic points of view of Brief and Narrative Therapy. She is the co-author of several books, including, The Trauma Response: Treatment for Emotional Injury. Dr. Everstine focuses on trauma and crisis intervention. His most recent book is, The Anatomy of Suicide: Silence of the Heart. Phyllis Erwin is the Administrator at MRI and bears the distinction of being here for half the life of the Institute. Her academic background is in sociology. In an introduction to his latest book, Louis Everstine described Phyllis as a person who "keeps the peace among a community of scholars."
In 1965 Dr. Fisch founded the Brief Therapy Center at MRI. Dr. Fisch is Director Emeritus of the Brief Therapy Center. The Brief Therapy Center was the first such institute in the world established for the express purpose of researching ways to make therapy more effective and efficient. In doing so, Dr. Fisch and his colleagues created one of the most influential, widely practiced and time proven methods of therapy in use today: The MRI Model of Brief Therapy. Dr. Fisch is the co-author of a number of books, including Change and The Tactics of Change . Dr. Fisch's most recent book, Brief Therapy with Intimidating Cases: Changing the Unchangeable , applies the Brief Therapy Model to those problems that therapists find discouraging. Dr. Fisch had conducted workshops across North America, Europe, Latin America, Asia, and Israel. Dr. Hammett, a clinical psychologist, is Research Associate and a past president of the MRI Board of Directors. Over the last fifteen years he has assisted in research studies with Jules Riskin on family stress, nuclear war and earthquakes and with Virginia Lewis and Stephanie Brown on alcoholic families in the process of recovery. James is the Co-Director of the Strategic Family Therapy and Training Center, a Research Associate, and MRI's Archivist in Residence. He is co-author of the book, The Violence of Men, and a contributor of chapters to eight other clinical texts. His interests include marriage and family therapy and oppositional and conduct disorders. Dr. Larsen has been in the field of Psychology, Behavior and Brief Therapy since 1970. She has a wide-range of training and experience and provides treatment to individuals, couples and families for a multitude of problems, and with culturally diverse populations. Dr. Larsen became interested in the work of MRI in 1968 after reading several publications by Jackson, Bateson, Haley and Watzlawick, then began attending presentations and conferences at MRI. Also during this time, Ferol worked for more than 12 years at Stanford and at Stanford Research Institute as a Research Psychologist with a specific interest in the specialization of the human brain and behavior. Ferol is a past Director of the MRI Clinic. She was Principal investigator of a project in collaboration with Stanford Medical School in which she conducted extensive live interviews with couples to evaluate hi-risk patterns of communication and support in individuals either diagnosed with Clinical Depression or a life-threatening medical illness, namely Coronary Heart Disease. Ferol continues to consult with hospitals, agencies and health care providers using brief and interactional interventions with hi-risk individuals to increase medical compliance. She has participated in several MRI researches projects and is a member of the MRI Clinic as well as the training staff. Dr. Larsen is the author or co-author of more than 25 scientific publications. In addition to her clinical work, Ferol has an extensive interest and experience with animals both as an Animal Psychologist and as a Consultant giving presentations on the Medical and Psychological benefits of animals. Ferol has spent her life working with animals in many ways, but especially in including the animal in family sessions. She considers the animal as an important participant in the interactional interventions with the animal’s significant other, and as problem solvers. Ferol has three Golden Retrievers who accompany her as co-therapists with many clients. She also volunteers time to work on the protection of wildlife, the environment, and social issues. Dr. Levin has been in practice since 1975. He studied Brief Therapy for 10 years with John Weakland, C.E. and was involved in the development of EMDR with Francine Shapiro, Ph.D. In recent years, Dr. Levin has conducted research at the former EMDR Research Center at the MRI, served as Research Director for the MRI, and maintains a private practice in Salinas, California. Dr. Lewis is co-director of the Family Recovery Project which has created a new paradigm for the treatment of alcoholism and alcoholic families. Two models were developed from this research on recovering families: The Alcoholic Family Recovery Model, (an extension of Dr. Stephanie Brown's developmental model) and the Family Recovery Typology Model. Highlights of these models include: The necessity for a systems perspective, that the recovery process is developmental with specific stages and treatment implications, and that there are different types of families in recovery requiring different treatment approaches. From this research, Dr. Lewis has co-authored with Dr. Stephanie Brown, the following books, The Alcoholic Family in Recovery and The Family Recovery Guide: A Map for Healthy Growth. Dr. Lewis has conducted a number of workshops, and is continuing to analyze the data collected from families with sobriety ranging from two months to twenty years. Marguerite McCorkle, Ph.D. has been connected to MRI since 1977. She is currently seerving as the Treasurer of the Board of Directors. Over the course of her tenure at MRI, Dr. McCorkle completed post-doctoral internship, worked on several projects and provided clinical services. Her early professional interests included innovative methodologies to study human interaction. She was the Director of Research for several years and is a Senior Research Fellow. Dr. McCorkle is a licensed clinical psychologist with a private practice in the Napa valley. Dr. McCorkle received her doctorate from the University of Nevada-Reno.
Lizbeth J. Martin, President of the Mental Research Institute's (MRI) Board of Directors, is Dean of Sciences at Notre Dame de Namur University (NDNU) in Belmont, California. A former faculty member in the Department of Clinical Psychology and Gerontology at NDNU, and a licensed psychologist since 1986, Dr. Martin is a research associate at MRI and a member of the therapy team at the MRI Brief Therapy Center. Dr. Martin taught in the Human Biology Program and the Department of Psychology at Stanford University. After completing a post-doctoral fellowship in Developmental Psychobiology in the Stanford Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, Dr. Martin became a consultant to the pharmaceutical industry for five years before joining the faculty at Notre Dame de Namur University. Dr. Martin received her bachelor's degree from Brown University and her doctorate in psychology from Stanford University. Robert Navarra, Psy.D., M.F.T. Robert Navarra, Psy.D., M.F.T., is a Research Associate, Co-founder and Director of Center for Couples in Recovery (CCR) at MRI, a program dedicated to integrating ongoing research/treatment for couples recovering from addiction and providing education, training, and consultation to other professionals and organizations. Dr. Navarra developed the Couples Reciprocal Development Approach (CRDA), a model for conceptualizing and treating couples recovering from addiction. Dr. Navarra is a Certified Gottman Therapist and is currently creating a pilot program/study incorporating Gottman Marital Therapy within the CRDA model. Dr. Norfleet is a Senior Research Fellow at the MRI. She is also a Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University School of Medicine. Her professional interests include couples therapy and professional issues.
Wendel Ray, Ph.D., a former Director of MRI, has been a research associate and is the Director of MRI's Don D. Jackson Archive since the late 1980s. Dr. Ray serves as Professor of Family Therapy at the University of Louisiana at Monroe. He routinely conducts training internationally and nationally on a variety of topics including brief therapy of adolescent substance abuse, brief treatment of ADHD, family violence, as well as lecturing on Gregory Bateson's research projects and Don Jackson's contributions to interactional theory. He is author or co-author of numerous articles and books including Propagations: 30 Years of influence from MRI (Marriage and the Family) (co-edited with John Weakland); Resource Focused Therapy (co-authored with Bradford Keeney); Evolving Brief Therapies: In Honor of John H. Weakland (co-edited with Steve de Shazer); Irreverence: A Therapists' Guide to Survival , and The Cybernetics of Prejudices in the Practice of Psychotherapy , (co-authored with Gianfranco Cecchin & Gerry Lane).
Dr. Riskin conducted one of, if not the first investigations of normal family processes. His early papers on family theory and assessment, now considered classic in the field, set forth some of the first formal methods for assessing interactional process among family members. Now in semi-retirement, Dr. Riskin is the remaining member of the original MRI Ms. Rudolph is a member of the therapy team at the MRI Brief Therapy Center, and the Founder and Director of PACTS (Parent, Adolescent and Child Therapeutic Solutions), an at-risk youth and family clinic that utilizes the Brief Therapy model to provide therapeutic counseling to families facing ongoing risk factors in their communities. The program offers bilingual services to school districts in San Mateo County. Ms. Rudolph received her bachelor’s degree from the University of California at Irvine, and her Masters in Family Therapy at Notre Dame de Namur University.
Ms. Schlanger is the Assistant Director of the Brief Therapy Center. She has participated in that weekly project for the past 17 years. She is the Founder and Co-Director of the Latino Brief Therapy Center (LBTC) which was founded in 1994 to specifically address the cultural issues related to the Spanish-speaking families in the Bay Area. This center also has offered trainings for Spanish-speaking colleagues in Latin America and Spain for the last 10 years. As a part of the LBTC, Ms. Schlanger directs the Una Mano Amiga school-based program. Ms. Schlanger is co-author, with Dr. Richard Fisch, of "Brief Therapy with Intimidating Cases: Changing the Unchangeable."
Paul Watzlawick is one of the world's leading theoreticians in Communication Theory and Radical Constructivism. Author of 18 books (in 85 foreign language editions) and more than 150 book articles and book chapters, Dr. Watzlawick is a founding member of MRI's Brief Therapy Center. Visit the MRI Bookstore to access a few of Dr. Watzlawick's books including Pragmatics of Communication: A Study of Interactional Patterns, Pathologies, and Paradoxes , (co-authored with Janet Beavin and Don D. Jackson); Change: Principles of Problem Formation and Problem Resolution , (co-authored with John Weakland and Richard Fisch); The Language of Change: Elements of Therapeutic Communication ; and The Situation is Hopeless but Not Serious. Dr. Watzlawick passed away on March 31, 2007. MRI's Obituary page for Dr. Watzlawick.
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