List of notable family therapists

This is a list of some of the key figurures in the history of family therapy.

Some key developers of family therapy are:
 * Alfred Adler   (phenomenology)
 * Nathan Ackerman (psychoanalytic)
 * Tom Andersen (Reflecting practices and dialogues about dialogues)
 * Harlene Anderson (Postmodern Collaborative Therapy and Collaborative Language Systems)
 * Harry J Aponte (Person-of-the-Therapist)
 * Gregory Bateson (1904 – 1980) (cybernetics, systems theory)
 * Ivan Böszörményi-Nagy (Contextual therapy, intergenerational, relational ethics)
 * Murray Bowen (Systems theory, intergenerational)
 * Steve de Shazer (solution focused therapy)
 * Milton H. Erickson (hypnotherapy, strategic therapy, brief therapy)
 * Richard Fisch (brief therapy, strategic therapy)
 * James Framo (object relations theory, intergenerational)
 * Harry Goolishian (Postmodern Collaborative Therapy and Collaborative Language Systems)
 * John Gottman (marriage)
 * Robert-Jay Green (LGBT, cross-cultural issues)
 * Jay Haley (strategic therapy, communications)
 * Lynn Hoffman (strategic, post-systems, collaborative)
 * Don D. Jackson (systems theory)
 * Sue Johnson (Emotionally focused therapy, attachment theory)
 * Bradford Keeney (cybernetics, resource focused therapy)
 * Walter Kempler (Gestalt psychology)
 * Cloe Madanes (strategic therapy)
 * Salvador Minuchin (structural)
 * Braulio Montalvo (structural)
 * Virginia Satir (communications, experiential, conjoint and co-therapy)
 * Mara Selvini Palazzoli (Milan systems)
 * Ross Speck (network therapy)
 * Robin Skynner (Group Analysis)
 * Paul Watzlawick (Brief therapy, systems theory)
 * John Weakland (Brief therapy, strategic therapy, systems theory)
 * Carl Whitaker (Family systems, experiential, co-therapy)
 * Michael White (narrative therapy)
 * Lyman Wynne (Schizophrenia, pseudomutuality)