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The medical model of mental health reduces human distress to a problem of brain chemistry and ignores the vital role of relationships. Here, two therapists invite you into their office to see how symptoms like depression are embedded in family dynamics and healed through family therapy.

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The medical model of mental health reduces human distress to a problem of brain chemistry and ignores the vital role of relationships. Here, two therapists invite you into their office to see how symptoms like depression are embedded in family dynamics and healed through family therapy.
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Amy Begel is a family therapist who received her family therapy training over 30 years ago with one of the creators of family therapy, Dr. Salvador Minuchin. Since then, she has maintained a busy private practice in New York City. Until 2011 Amy was Senior Faculty at The Minuchin Center for the Family where she conducted family therapy training nationally and internationally. In addition to her clinical practice in family therapy, Amy is on the teaching faculty of both the Department of Family Practice, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, and Department of Internal Medicine and Cardiology at Maimonides Medical Center where she trains resident physicians in looking at relationship dynamics in the context of medical care. Amy has authored numerous professional articles and posts, including the Psychotherapy Networker, the popular medical blog KevinMD, and HuffPost. She writes the blog Most Human. She lives in Teaneck, New Jersey. David Keith is Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, New York. He has been in practice for 45 years. He was on the Psychiatry faculty at Wisconsin for eight years, then entered private practice for five years with the Family Therapy Institute in St. Paul, Minnesota. It was at the University Wisconsin that Dave met Carl Whitaker, MD, considered to be one of the important forefathers of the Family Therapy movement. He became a co-therapist, co-author and therapeutic collaborator with Dr. Whitaker, working with him for over 20 years. Dave is board certified in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Dave has published 22 book chapters and 31 papers. He coauthored Defiance in the Family: Finding Hope in Therapy (2001), and he co-edited Family Therapy as an Alternative to Medication: An Appraisal of Pharmland (2003). He is the author of Continuing the Experiential Approach of Carl Whitaker: Process, Practice & Magic (2015). He lives in Manlius, New York.