Freda E. Martin, MD, FRCPsych, FRCPsych (Canada)

[摘要] Freda Martin, who died in Toronto on 2 August 2019 at the age of 87, was one of the early pioneers of family therapy, first in the UK and then in Canada. In 1962, while working at the Tavistock Clinic, London, in collaboration with Janet Knight, she published an important paper describing the assessment of disturbed children involving the whole family.1 At that time, the standard assessment of such children involved the mother being seen by a social worker, while the child saw the psychiatrist. Fathers were either not seen at all or seen usually on only one occasion with the mother. Freda Martin, with Rosemary Whiffen and John Byng-Hall, influenced both by John Bowlby and the family therapy movement in the USA, was able to demonstrate how not just assessing but treating the whole family as a unit often illuminated the family dynamics in a manner impossible to achieve when family members were seen individually.

[学科分类] 工程和技术（综合）