Key Influences

LOOKING BACK

Barker's Key Philosophical Influences 

As mentioned earlier, the model is a result of collaborative work. Barker was inspired by these individuals while he worked on this model.

SHOMA MARITA

STEVE DE SHAZER

HARRY STACK SULLIVAN

THOMAS SZASZ

EDWARD PODVOLL

HILDEGARD PEPLAU

DR. LOREN MOSHER

• SHOMA MARITA: This Japanese psychiatrist's most famous maxim - ‘do what needs to be done’ –plays a central role in the Tidal philosophy. 

• HARRY STACK SULLIVAN: This American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst first developed his interpersonal relations theory in the 1920s. Sullivan was the first analyst to pull his chair up alongside the 'patient' and begin a conversation.
• HILDEGARD PEPLAU: She developed her own interpretation of Sullivan's Interpersonal Relations theory, and applied it to nursing. She also pioneered and named many of the nursing practices now taken for granted, - the 'nurse-patient relationship', the 'one-to-one session', the 'milieu' and 'groupwork', among many others. 
• THOMAS SZASZ: As an existential behaviorist, he believed that we create the meaning of our lives by the actions we take. His learning and vision are matched only by his humanity and gentility. 
• DR. LOREN MOSHER: He insisted that people could recover from so-called severe psychotic states without drugs, and pioneered the kind of work that is now called 'early intervention'. 
• EDWARD PODVOLL: As a psychiatrist and pyschoanalyst, he showed how we might 'make sense' of even the most extreme human states, illustrating vividly the importance of 'being with' people. 
• STEVE DE SHAZER: He was one of the key contributors to what has become known as 'solution-focused therapy- recognizing that people have their own 'resources', which they can bring to the possible 'solution' of their problems in living. 

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