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Harold Goolishian, PhD (1924–1991)
Introduction
Harold Goolishian was a Psychologist and a Marriage and Family Therapist. He was an innovative and influential seminal figure in the development of the conversational/dialogical therapies and movement in the field of family therapy and psychology.
Career
Goolishian was born in 1924 to an Armenian father and Irish mother and grew up in Boston, Massachusetts. He received his Master of Arts in Psychology, with distinctions, in 1949 from Michigan State University, and received his PhD in Psychology from the University of Houston in 1953. He completed his psychology internship at the Veteran Administration Hospital, Fort Cluster, Michigan (1948–1949) and his psychology residency at University of Texas Medical Branch, Department of Neurology and Psychiatry, Galveston, Texas.
Goolishian had a distinguished career. He was a Professor, in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, at the University of Texas Medical Branch,...
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Anderson, H., & Goolishian, H. (1988). Human systems as linguistic systems: Some evolving ideas. Family Process, 27, 371–393.
Anderson, H., & Goolishian, H. (1992). The client is the expert: A not-knowing approach to therapy. In S. McNamee & K. Gergen (Eds.), Social construction and the therapeutic process (pp. 25–39). Newbury Park: Sage.
Anderson, H., & Goolishian, H. A. (2002). Narrative and self: Postmodern dilemmas for psychotherapy. In D. Fried Schnitman & J. Schnitman (Eds.), New paradigms, culture and subjectivity (pp. 217–228). Creskill: Hampton Press.
Dell, P., & Goolishian, H. (1981). Order through fluctuation: An evolving epistemology for human systems. Australian Journal of Family Therapy, 2(4), 175–184.
Goolishian, H., & Anderson, H. (1987). Language systems and therapy: An evolving idea. Psychotherapy, 24, 529–538.
Goolishian, H., & Anderson, H. (1990). Understanding the therapeutic process: From individuals and families to systems in language. In F. Kaslow (Ed.), Voices in family psychology (pp. 91–113). Newbury Park: Sage.
McGregor, R., Ritchie, A. M., Serrano, A. C., Shuster, E. C., McDanald, E. C., & Goolishian, H. A. (1964). Multiple impact therapy with families. New York: McGraw-Hill.
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Anderson, H. (2018). Goolishian, Harry. In: Lebow, J., Chambers, A., Breunlin, D. (eds) Encyclopedia of Couple and Family Therapy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15877-8_1002-1
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