Frank, the ninth of twelve children grew up on a farm in Missouri. His professional career began as a novice in at Saint Anselm's Abbey in Washington DC. Upon not taking Final Vows, he left the abbey and studied clinical social work at the Catholic University of America in DC. There he met his future wife, Dorothy June Barberis. With her he had four children.
He began his career in client-centered psychotherapy, with training under Carl Rogers. For many years, he was a clinical professor at the University of Wisconsin School of Social Work and an assistant clinical professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin Medical School. As a social worker in the 1960s, he developed his "provocative" theory.
Provocative Therapy is a system of psychotherapy in which the therapist plays the devil's advocate, siding with the negative half of the client's ambivalence toward his life's goals, his relationships, work and the structures within which he lives. Client examples include working with obese patients with their weight and eating habits. His methods, though controversial, have attracted worldwide attention. He worked with schizophrenic, drug-addicted and severely depressed patients as well as with criminal psychopaths. His private practice, he led from 1960 to 1993.
His best known published work is the 1974 book Provocative Therapy.
Frank, the ninth of twelve children grew up on a farm in Missouri. His professional career began as a novice in at Saint Anselm's Abbey in Washington DC. Upon not taking Final Vows, he left the abbey and studied clinical social work at the Catholic University of America in DC. There he met his future wife, Dorothy June Barberis. With her he had four children.
He began his career in client-centered psychotherapy, with training under Carl Rogers. For many years, he was a clinical professor at the University of Wisconsin School of Social Work and an assistant clinical professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin Medical School. As a social worker in the 1960s, he developed his "provocative" theory.
Provocative Therapy is a system of psychotherapy in which the therapist plays the devil's advocate, siding with the negative half of the client's ambivalence toward his life's goals, his relationships, work and the structures within which he lives. Client examples include working with obese patients with their weight and eating habits. His methods, though controversial, have attracted worldwide attention. He worked with schizophrenic, drug-addicted and severely depressed patients as well as with criminal psychopaths. His private practice, he led from 1960 to 1993.
His best known published work is the 1974 book Provocative Therapy.
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John Joseph Farrelly Jr
1921–1972
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1922–1990
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Caroline Farrelly Gross
1923–2011
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Elizabeth Mary Farrelly Monnig
1925–1986
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Rev Thomas Farrelly
1926–2008
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Rev Mark John Farrelly
1927–2011
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Edward Scott Farrelly
1928–2013
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1930–1979
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1932–2017
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1934–2014
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