Don D. Jackson

Don D. Jackson (actually Donald De Avila Jackson ; born January 28, 1920 in Oakland , California , † January 29, 1968 in Foster City , California) was an American psychiatrist and psychotherapist .

Jackson founded the Mental Research Institute (MRI) in Palo Alto, California in 1959 . He succeeded u. a. Paul Watzlawick to join the institute.

Family therapy was a focus of Jackson's work .

Fonts

with Paul Watzlawick , Janet H. Beavin : Human Communication. Forms, disorders, paradoxes. Huber, Stuttgart, Bern 1969. 10th edition 2000, ISBN 3-456-84463-8 .
with William J. Lederer : marriage as a learning process. How partnership works. Pfeiffer, Munich 1972. 3rd edition 1976, ISBN 3-7904-0063-7 .

personal data
SURNAME	Jackson, Don D.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Jackson, Don De Avila; Jackson, Donald De Avila
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American psychotherapist
DATE OF BIRTH	January 28, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH	Oakland , California
DATE OF DEATH	January 29, 1968
Place of death	Foster City , California