Product Details

• Actors: Jay Haley
• Directors: Madeleine Richeport-Haley
• Format: Color, NTSC
• Number of tapes: 1
• VHS Release Date: January 1, 1997
• Run Time: 50 minutes
• ASIN: 0931513138
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #378,918 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Jennifer Andrews, PhD, Journal of Marital and Family Therapy 01/1999

"This videotape is an intimate narrative documentary, containing photos and clips from an album of a particular thread of the family therapy tapestry. It is complete with memories, nostalgia, and many images, both still and moving.... To anyone who has been involved with family therapy for some time, this is a trip down memory lane and a refreshing review of the genesis of Haley's point of view. To the student, it is an orientation and introduction to some of the pioneers and great minds that contributed to the development of pragmatic family therapies and the forerunners to today's short-term family therapies".

Product Description

Produced by Jay Haley and Madeleine Richeport-Haley 50 minutes

This film covers the fascination of discovery at the birth and development of family therapy, blending the systems and views of Gregory Bateson with the ideas of Milton H. Erickson, MD on hypnosis and therapy as well as Zen.

Haley's original and enduring contribution is his brief directive therapy to solve problems, which is of interest to mental health students, colleagues, parents, and educators who are grappling with a rapidly changing mental health care milieu. Included is material from 40 years of interviews, seminars, and cases leading to family therapy issues of the 1900s by one of its founders.

Jay Haley, formerly with the Mental Research Institute and the Philadelphia Child Care Guidance Clinic as well as the Family Therapy Institute of Washington, DC served on the psychiatric faculties of the University of Maryland, Howard University, and the University of Pennsylvania. His experience is covered in 19 books including Strategies of Psychotherapy, the Power Tactics of Jesus Christ, Uncommon Therapy, Leaving Home, Learning and Teaching Therapy and several films including Heroin My Baby, and Milton H. Erickson, MD Explorer in Hypnosis and Therapy which appeared on PBS.

Madeleine Richeport-Haley, PhD is an anthropologist filmmaker whose work includes consultant to National Geographic in Brazil, and documentaries appearing on PBS. As a WHO mental health consultant, she has made therapy training films. She and Jay Haley collaborated on Milton H. Erickson, MD Explorer in Hypnosis and Therapy and Dance and Trance of Balinese Children.

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