Family diagnosis and therapy using videotape playback.

Morton S. Perlmutter, Dorothy G. Loeb, Gary Gumpert, Frank J. O'Hara, Imogene Smith Higbie

American Journal of Orthopsychiatry · 1967 · 14 citations · 0 references

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Abstract

Diagnostic sessions of families in therapy were videotaped and played back on TV screens to patients and therapists. Problems became clearer and more readily available to the families for their own treatment. A theory of communicational feedback is proposed.