Research at MRI

Since 1959, the Mental Research Institute of Palo Alto, California, has been one of the leading sources of ideas in the area of interactional/systemic studies, psychotherapy, and family therapy.

Our mission is to:

• Conduct and encourage scientific research based on new ways of looking at how people behave;

• Benefit the human community worldwide through training, clinical and consultative service;

• Explore the application of new paradigms of change in the context of innovative clinical services;

• Explore and to encourage the use of an interactional approach to further understand and more effectively resolve human problems from the family to all other levels of social organization.

For more information about the varied research projects currently going on at MRI, check out the links to the left.