Steve de Shazer

Steve de Shazer (June 25, 1940, Milwaukee – September 11, 2005, Vienna) was a psychotherapist, author, and developer and pioneer of solution focused brief therapy. In 1978, he founded the Brief Family Therapy Center (BFTC) in Milwaukee, Wisconsin with his wife Insoo Kim Berg.

He wrote six significant books, translated into 14 languages; wrote many papers; and lectured internationally.

De Shazer was originally trained as a classical musician and worked as a jazz saxophonist. He received a Bachelor in Fine Arts and an MSc in Social Work from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He never studied at the Mental Research Institute in Palo Alto, California, even though some rumours has it he did. He was a lifelong friend of John Weakland though, and saw him as his mentor.

elected bibliography

*cite book | author=de Shazer, Steve | title=Patterns of Brief Family Therapy: An Ecosystemic Approach | location=New York, NY | publisher=The Guilford Press | year=1982 | id=ISBN 0-89862-038-4
*cite journal | author=de Shazer, Steve | title=The death of resistance | journal=Family Process | year=1984 | volume=23 | pages=I 1–17
*cite book | author=de Shazer, Steve | title=Keys to Solution in Brief Therapy | location=New York, NY | publisher=W W Norton & Company | year=1985 | id=ISBN 0-393-70004-6
*cite book | author=de Shazer, Steve | title=Clues: Investigating Solutions in Brief Therapy | location=New York, NY | publisher=W W. Norton & Company | year=1988 | id=ISBN 0-393-70054-2
*cite book | author=de Shazer, Steve | title=Putting Difference to Work | location=New York, NY | publisher=W W Norton & Co Inc | year=1991 | id=ISBN 0-393-70110-7
*cite book | author=de Shazer, Steve | title=Words Were Originally Magic | location=New York, NY | publisher=W W Norton & Company | year=1994 | id=ISBN 0-393-70170-0
*cite book | author=de Shazer, Steve | title=More than Miracles: the State of the Art of Solution-focused Therapy | location=Binghamton, NY | publisher=Haworth Press | year=2005 | id=

External links

* [http://www.brief-therapy.org/ Brief Family Therapy Center]