Donald deAvila Jackson

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Don D. Jackson (1920-1968) was a psychiatrist best known for his pioneering work in family therapy.

He worked with the likes of Gregory Bateson, Paul Watzlawick, John Weakland and Jay Haley at the Mental Research Institute at Stanford University [[1]]. There he developed thinking in the areas of family therapy, brief therapy, systems theory and communication theory.