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Carlos E. Sluzki, M.D. (1933–)

Introduction

Carlos E. Sluzki is a psychiatrist, family therapist, and psychoanalyst, who has published and presented extensively around the world on couple and family therapy, social networks, violence and victimization, refugees, and human rights. Dr. Sluzki currently practices couples and family therapy-oriented psychiatry in Washington D.C.

Career

Carlos E. Sluzki received his medical degree from the University of Buenos Aires School of Medicine, and became part of a pioneering team that introduced social and community psychiatry practices in that country, while being trained in psychoanalysis at the Argentine Psychoanalytic Association. He was also trained as a systemic therapist at the Mental Research Institute (MRI) in Palo Alto, CA, and was influential in introducing that discipline in Argentina, and then in Latin America through a series of intensive programs for Spanish-speaking professionals. In 1971, he migrated to the United States as a...

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  • Sluzki, C. E. (1979). Migration and family conflict. Family Process, 18(4), 379–390.

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  • Sluzki, C. E. (1990). Disappeared: Semantic and somatic effects of political repression in a family seeking therapy. Family Process, 29(2), 131–143.

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  • Sluzki, C. E. (1992). Transformations: A blueprint for narrative changes in therapy. Family Process, 31(3), 217–230.

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  • Sluzki, C. E. (1993). Toward a general model of family and political victimization. Psychiatry, 56, 178–187.

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  • Sluzki, C. E. (2015). Presence of the absent: Therapy with families with ghosts. New York: Routledge.

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  • Sluzki, C. E., & Ransom, D. (Eds.). (1976). Double-bind: The foundation of the communication approach to the family. New York: Grune & Stratton.

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  1. Alliant International University, Sacramento, CA, USA

    Shalini Lata Middleton

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  1. The Family Institute at Northwestern, Evanston, Illinois, USA

    Jay Lebow

  2. The Family Institute at Northwestern, Evanston, Illinois, USA

    Anthony Chambers

  3. The Family Institute at Northwestern, Evanston, Illinois, USA

    Douglas C. Breunlin

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  1. California School of Professional Psychology, Alliant International University, Sacramento, CA, USA

    Sean D. Davis

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Middleton, S. (2018). Sluzki, Carlos. 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_736-4

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    Sluzki, Carlos
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    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15877-8_736-4

  2. Sluzki, Carlos
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    29 August 2017

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15877-8_736-3

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    Sluzki, Carlos
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