Nathan Ackerman
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During the 1950' & 1960's the concept of culture played an integral role in the development of theories regarding the family. Nathan Ackerman's theoretical formulations on the family emerged against the backdrop of the psychoanalysis and Postwar concerns about the state of the American family (Weinstein, 2004). Ackerman presented a framework of family therapy as a cultural critique depicting the family as symptomatic of cultural ills (Rubble, 1999). Thus, he applied this frame to problems in society such as prejudice and discrimination. For instance, he referred to the family as the mediator between ...
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