Ross Speck

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Ross V. Speck, MD (1927-2015), was a psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and family therapist. He had a strong interest in sociology and anthropology and did research in family therapy of schizophrenia, drugs, depression, and adolescents. [1] [2] He was one of the "first generation" of family therapists and a founder of the Family Institute of Philadelphia. In addition, he was the originator of NetWork Therapy.

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Career

A native of St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada, Speck received his medical degree in 1951 from the University of Toronto. [3] He taught at Thomas Jefferson University and Hahnemann Medical College in Philadelphia [3] and at The Union Institute, Cincinnati, Ohio. He became a U.S. citizen in 1957, while working at Brooke Army Medical Center. [3] [4] He was on the faculty of the International R.D. Laing Institute in St. Gallen, Switzerland, and was a friend of Laing's. He was a life fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. In the 1960s, he founded the Family Institute of Philadelphia, [3] in the neighborhood of Spring Garden. He also was the Eastern Pennsylvania Psychiatric Institute clinical director from 1958 to 1964, [5] a psychiatry professor at Hahnemann Medical College from 1960 to 1970, and worked as a researcher at the Philadelphia Psychiatric Center from 1966 to 1972. [3] In September 1969, he coined the concept of Network Therapy in an article co-written with Uri Rueveni. [6] [7] [4]

Among his books are Family Networks (1972; with Carolyn Attneave) and The New Families (1972). [3] [8] [4] He served on the editorial board of the journals Family Process , Journal of Psychotherapy and the Family and Journal of Family Psychotherapy. Speck also worked as a Thomas Jefferson University part-time clinical professor of psychiatry from 1980 to 1990, and was a professor at the Union Institute in Cincinnati from 1980 to 1993. [3]

He died at his home in Thorofare, New Jersey on May 23, 2015. [3]

Personal life

Speck was married to psychotherapist Joan Kendig Gill, daughter of Isabelle Kendig and Howard Belding Gill, [9] and was later known as Joan Lincoln Speck or Joan Speck. [3] [4] [10] He had four sons and three daughters, along with two stepsons, and was previously married to a woman named Margaret. [3]

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