Carlos E. Sluzki

George Mason University

Professor

Email: csluzki@gmu.edu

Qualifications

Professor and Acting Chair, Department of Global and Community Health, and Professor, School of Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University, Fairfax and Arlington, VA
Professor of Psychiatry (Clinical), George Washington University Medical School, Washington, DC

Publications(Selected)

1. Sluzki, CE (2006a): “Difficult babies, difficult parents: Toward a model based on a reciprocal fit.” (In Italian) Majeutica, 25/26: 9-18; and, in an updated version, (in French) Cahiers critiques de therapie familaile et de pratiques de reseaux, 43:151-167, 2009, and (in Spanish) Redes 22:11-27, 2009.
2. Sluzki, CE (2006b): “Short term heaven, long term limbo: A visit to a refugee camp in Rwanda” Global Studies Review, 2(1):4-5. An expanded version was published in Spanish in PoSIbles: Politica, Salud Internacional y Desarrollo Sostenible, 2:11-15, 2009
3. Sluzki, CE (2006c): “Victimizacion, recuperacion, y las historias con ‘mejor forma’ ” (“Victimization, recovery, and the ‘better formed’ stories”) (in Spanish) Sistemas Familiares, 22(1-2):5-20
4. Sluzki, CE (2007a): “Toward an evolving theory of practice.” Family Process, 46(2):173-84.
5. Sluzki CE (2007b): “Lyman C Wynne and the transformation of the field of family-and-schizophrenia.” Family Process, 46(2):143-49. An expanded version has been published in Spanish in Perspectivas Sistemicas on Line, July 2007, and in Portuguese in Familia em Foco: Teoria e Clinica, 1(1):7-18, 2008
6. Sluzki, CE (2007c): “The interface between family and genomics.” Journal of Family Psychotherapy, 18(1):1-9. A previous version was published in Spanish in Perspectivas Sistemicas, 17(87):3-6, 2005
7. Sluzki, CE (2007d): Therapeutic blueprints for patients trapped in shame- or humiliation-generating stories” (in Spanish). Perspectivas Sistemicas, 19(94-95):3-5, March
8. Sluzki, CE (2008a): “Migration and the disruption of the social network.” Chapter in McGoldrick M & Hardy, K, Ed.: Re-Visioning Family Therapy: Race, Culture and Gender in Clinical Practice. 2nd. Edition. New York, Guilford Press.
9. Sluzki, CE (2008b): “”The Ancient Cult of Madame: When therapists trade curiosity for certainty.” Journal of Family Therapy (UK), 30:119-130. A previous version appeared in Portuguese in Pensando Familias (Brazil), 11(1): 29-40, 2007
10. Sluzki CE (2008c): “Saudades at the edge of the self and the merits of portable families” Transcultural Psychiatry, 45:379-390
11. Sluzki CE (2008d): “Migration: A social networks perspective” {chapter for Scabini, E. & Rossi, G (2008): La migrazione come evento familiare. (Migration as a family event) (in Italian). Milan, Vita e Pensiero Press
12. Sluzki CE (2008e): “From the schizophrenogenic mother to the genotypic vulnerability: Update on the theme ‘Family and schizophrenia’ ” (in Spanish) Revista Lationamericana de Psiquiatria, 9:24-34 and, in Italian, in Psicobietttivo, 29(2):137-154, 2009
13. Sluzki CE (2010b): “The pathway between conflict and reconciliation: Coexistence as an evolutionary process.” Transcultural Psychiatry, 47(1): 55-69
14. Sluzki, CE; Gennari, M & Accordini, M (2010): ”Between projects and regrets: Social network maps of three young female immigrants.” Chapter in Cigoli, V & Gennari M, Eds.: Close relationships and community psychology: An International perspective. Milan, Franco Angeli
15. Sluzki, CE (2010c): “On Sorrow: Medical Advice from Isahq ben Sulayman al-Israel 1,000 Years ago” Am J Psychiat 167(4):387
16. Sluzki, CE (2010d): “Personal social networks and health: Conceptual and clinical implications of their reciprocal impact.” Family Systems and Health, 28(1): 1-18
17. Sluzki, CE (2010f): “Social Networks and Health.” In Proceedings of the XVIII World IFTA Congress. Bologna, Italy, Medimond (in press)
18. Sluzki, CE (2011): “Damned if They Do, Damned if They Don’t: Dilemmas of Internally Displaced Populations.” Global Studies Review, 7(1) Spring
19. Sluzki, CE (2012) The group therapist as social network enhancer: A new area of inquiry. Forum (journal of the International Association for Group Psychotherapy and Group Process), 5:55-68
20. Sluzki, CE (2012) Acerca de la curiosidad: Evolucion de moralejas en la historia de Barbazul. Redes (Spain, accepted for publication, Sept. 2012)