Evan Imber-Black

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Evan Imber-Black (born May 19, 1944 ) is an American psychiatrist and psychotherapist .

Life

Evan Imber-Black is Director of the Center for Families and Health at the Ackerman Institute for the Family . Before she came to New York , she worked at the University of Calgary and the University of Massachusetts . As a professor of psychiatry at Albert Einstein College of Medicine , Bronx , she founded the Urban Institute for Families and Family Therapy there . She also works in private practice. Evan Imber-Black specializes in couple and twin therapy. Many of her books have also been published in German.

Imber-Black is the editor of Family Process and works for the Journal of Marital and Family Therapy and the International Journal of Feminist Family Therapy . She sits on the Advisory Board of the Psychotherapy Networker and was the director of a study program for family and group therapy. She also trained a number of psychiatric nurses in systemic therapy . Her Urban Institute conducted live supervisions in clinics across the Bronx, publicly, with no walls.

Imber-Black was President of the American Family Therapy Academy (AFTA) from 1993 to 1995 . In terms of content, she has dealt with family therapy in all its forms, with family rituals and family secrets . She has written more than 50 scientific papers and published them in articles and books. Imber-Black is married to Lascelles Black and is the grandmother of two grandchildren.

Awards

  • In 1990 she received the Award for Distinguished Contribution to Family Therapy Theory and Practice , which is presented by the AFTA .
  • She was the 1999 Cumulative Contribution to Marriage and Family Therapy awarded by the AAMFT is awarded

Important publications

In English

  • Families and Larger Systems. Guilford, London 1988
  • Rituals in Families and Family Therapy, Revised Edition (Eds., Jointly Janine Roberts & Richard Whiting) WW Norton 2003 (2nd edition)
  • Rituals for Our Times (together with Janine Roberts - Jason Aronson), 1998
  • Secrets in Families and Family Therapy, WW Norton 1993
  • The Secret Life of Families, Bantam 1998

In German language

  • Families and larger systems. In the thicket of institutions. 5th edition. Carl Auer, Heidelberg 2006, ISBN 3-89670-506-7 .
  • Rituals . 5th edition. Carl Auer, Heidelberg 2006, ISBN 3-89670-546-6 .
  • The power of silence . Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-423-36223-5 .
  • Secrets and taboos in family and family therapy . Lambertus, Freiburg im Breisgau 1995, ISBN 3-7841-0784-2 .
  • Trust and security . ECON, Düsseldorf 1993, ISBN 3-430-14939-8 .

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personal data
SURNAME Imber-Black, Evan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American psychiatrist, psychotherapist, and family therapist
DATE OF BIRTH May 19, 1944