Albert Scheflen
Albert Scheflen | |
|---|---|
| Born | November 15, 1920 Camden County, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Died | August 17, 1980 (aged 59) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine |
| Known for | Context analysis, research on non-verbal communication |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Psychiatry, psychoanalysis, kinesics |
| Institutions | Temple University Medical Center Albert Einstein College of Medicine |
Albert Edward Scheflen (15 November 1920 – 17 August 1980) was an American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst whose studies of kinesics and the "context analysis" of interaction helped establish the systematic investigation of face-to-face communication.[1][2] His books, notably Body Language and the Social Order (1972), influenced later work in linguistics, anthropology and family therapy.[3]
Early life and education
Scheflen was born in Camden County, New Jersey, in November 1920.[4] He earned an M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania and completed psychoanalytic training at the Philadelphia Psychoanalytic Institute.[2] During the Second World War, he served as a medical officer in the United States Navy.[4]
Career
After demobilization Scheflen joined the psychiatry faculty at Temple University Medical Center, where from 1956 he led a team that used filmed psychotherapy sessions to pioneer a “natural history method” for analysing interaction.[5] His early papers on communicational structure, published in American Behavioral Scientist, attracted the attention of Ray Birdwhistell and Adam Kendon[2], and in 1966–1967, he held a fellowship at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) to refine the approach.[6]
In the late 1960s, Scheflen became professor of psychiatry at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, directing research on human communication at the Bronx Psychiatric Center.[2] Over the next decade, he expanded context analysis in the books Communicational Structure (1973) and How Behavior Means (1974).[7][8]
Notes
- ^ "Dr. Albert Scheflen, a Psychiatrist (Published 1980)". The New York Times. 15 August 1980.
- ^ a b c d Henry, Jessica S. (10 October 2019). Scheflen, Albert. Springer. pp. 2565–2566. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-49425-8_773. ISBN 978-3-319-49423-4.
{{cite book}}:|website=ignored (help) - ^ Goodwin, Charles (2019). "Not Being Bound by What You Can See Now". Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research. 20 (2).
- ^ a b "Albert E. Scheflen". Casa Editrice Astrolabio–Ubaldini (in Italian).
- ^ Scheflen, Albert E. (1966). "Natural history method in psychotherapy: communicational research". In Gottschalk, Louis A. (ed.). Methods of Research in Psychotherapy. Springer. pp. 263–291. doi:10.1007/978-1-4684-6045-2_20. ISBN 978-1-4684-6047-6.
- ^ "Albert E. Scheflen". Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. Stanford University.
- ^ Shands, Harley C. (April 3, 1974). "Communicational Structure: Analysis of a Psychotherapy Transaction, by Albert E. Scheflen. M.D. Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1973, 378 pp., $15". American Journal of Psychiatry. 131 (4): 476. doi:10.1176/ajp.1974.131.4.476 – via psychiatryonline.org (Atypon).
- ^ Ince, Laurence P. (July 3, 1976). "How Behavior Means". American Journal of Psychotherapy. 30 (3): 501–502. doi:10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1976.30.3.501a – via psychiatryonline.org (Atypon).