Lyman Wynne

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Lyman Carroll Wynne (born September 17, 1923 in Lake Benton , Minnesota as Lyman Carroll Wind , † January 17, 2007 in Bethesda , Maryland ) was an American family therapist , university professor and schizophrenia researcher. From 1971 he held a chair at the University of Rochester . He and his wife Adele founded the Wynne Center for Family Research in Rochester , NY . He served as President of the American Family Therapy Academy (AFTA) and Family Process .

Life

Lyman Wynne was born on a farm in Minnesota, his father was a farmer and had to support the family on an annual income of $ 350. However, he knew Kant and Spinoza and conveyed their ideas to his son. Wynne's mother suffered from cancer and died when he was 12. Then little Wynne came to Duluth's uncle and aunt . His mother's suffering made him want to study medicine. At 18, he got a scholarship to Harvard University . He completed his first degree during World War II. The Army then sent him to Harvard Medical School , which he graduated in 1947. In the same year he married Adele Rogerson (born June 9, 1926), with whom he had five children. In 1958 a doctorate followed in social psychology, also at Harvard.

In the early 1950s, Wynne came to the National Institute of Mental Health , where he promoted family therapy and was eventually appointed director of the intramural research department. In parallel, the patient treated at St. Elizabeth's Hospital . As early as 1947, Wynne recognized that families were the logical units of treatment, even if only one family member had schizophrenia. In the early 1960s he took parental leave to conduct an anthropological family study in the Bekaa Valley in Lebanon . A long-term collaboration with the WHO in schizophrenia research began at that time .

With his colleague Margaret T. Singer, he published his studies in the Archives of General Psychiatry in the 1960s . In long-term studies in Finland with Pekka Tienari and Karl-Erik Wahlberg , he studied - for thirty years - the interactions between genetic and environmental influences on the development of schizophrenia on the basis of adopted twins . Lyman Wynne died of complications from prostate cancer .

Awards

  • 1981 Award for Distinguished Achievement in Family Therapy Research (AFTA)
  • 1989 Distinguished Contribution to Family Therapy Theory and Practice (AFTA)

Fonts

  • The Nature of Schizophrenia , together with RL Cromwell and S. Matthysse. Wiley 1978
  • (Ed. :) The state of the art in family therapy research. Family Process Press, New York 1988
Articles in German translation
  • Paradoxical Interventions: A Technique for Therapeutically Altering Individual and Family Systems. Family Dynamics 1 (1980): 42-56
  • Death, the most difficult of all family secrets. (With J. Nagy.) In: E. Imber-Black: Secrets and Taboos in Family and Family Therapy. Freiburg / Breiosgau 1995, 109–128

literature

  • Andrea Brandl-Nebehay et al .: Systemic family therapy. Vienna 1998, 19f
  • Lynn Hoffmann: Basics of family therapy. Hamburg 1984 (second edition), 31–35
  • Satuila Stierlin: I was burning with curiosity. Family stories of important family therapists. Carl Auer Systems, Heidelberg 2001. ISBN 3-89670-209-2 ; Pages 74-107

Web links

Obituaries

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Satuila Stierlin: I burned with curiosity. Family stories of important family therapists. Carl Auer Systems, Heidelberg 2001. ISBN 3-89670-209-2 ; Pages 74-107.
personal data
SURNAME Wynne, Lyman
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wynne, Lyman Carroll; Wynne, Lyman C .; Wind, Lyman Carroll
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American schizophrenia researcher and family therapist
DATE OF BIRTH September 17, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Lake Benton , Minnesota, USA
DATE OF DEATH January 17, 2007
Place of death Bethesda, Maryland , USA