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College of Health Sciences
Marriage & Family Therapy

Don D. Jackson Archive

Founded by Dr. Wendel Ray (now retired) at the MRI in 1987, the Don D. Jackson Archive is a collection of documents upon which much of the field of systemic marriage and family therapy and brief therapy are based.Ìý The Archive contains thousands of original audio recordings, video recordings, original paper documents including unpublished research materials from numerous completed research projects; collections of published writings by key members (Jackson, Bateson, Weakland, Fisch, Watzlawick, Satir, Haley); hundreds of rare photographs, first edition books and original articles, etc. Significant collections from other leading family theorists and therapists are also housed in the Jackson Archive, including Carl Whitaker, Gianfranco Cecchin, R. D. Laing, Heinz von Foerster, Bradford P. Keeney, Steve de Shazer and others.

About the Archive:

Students studying counseling, marriage and family therapy, social work, and other related fields benefit from accessing the Archive’s documents.ÌýÌýThe Archive supports students’ and others’ efforts in preparing assignments, competing assignments, writing articles and books, and completing dissertations.

Thus far approximately 20 dissertations have been written based on materials in the Archive, 12 here at »»ÆÞÉçÇø and additional dissertations by researchers at other Universities including Harvard, Virginia Tech, Syracuse University and Nova Southeastern who traveled to »»ÆÞÉçÇø to study materials preserved in the Archive.

As a working archive, rare documents are constantly being preserved and duplicated in digital format, and used as the basis for publishing/research.

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Videos by Dr. Wendel Ray

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Dr. Wendel Ray, Founder of the Don D. Jackson Archive and Retired Professor, MFT.

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Strauss Hall #158-160
700 University Avenue
Monroe, LA 71209

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