Lynn Hoffman (family therapist), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Lynn Hoffman (family therapist)

American psychotherapist

Date of Birth: 10-Sep-1924

Place of Birth: Paris, Île-de-France, France

Date of Death: 21-Dec-2017

Profession: psychotherapist, social worker

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Lynn Hoffman (Born in Paris, France, September 10, 1924, died December 21, 2017), an American social worker, family therapist, author and historian of family therapy.
Her mother, Ruth Reeves (1892–1966) was a painter, Art Deco textile designer and an originator of the American Index of Design.
She graduated summa cum laude in English Literature in 1946 from Radcliffe, and after editing psychology works, she started MSW studies in 1969 and specialized in family therapy.Originally a systems-strategic theorist and therapist, she has since become a proponent of post-systems/post-modern/collaborative approaches.
She has been an advisory editor of Family Process and Journal of Marital & Family Therapy.
Until her retirement in 2000, she had for many years been on the faculty of the Ackerman Institute and the Smith College School of Social Work.
She spent her last years as a lecturer at Saint Joseph College in West Hartford, Connecticut.