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.

Selected bibliography

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

External links

• Brief Family Therapy Center
• Social Construction Therapies Network