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The first modern psychologist to adopt a systemic orientation and actually conduct family therapy sessions was Alfred Adler. The American pioneers included Murray Bowen; Virginia Satir; Carl Whitaker; Salvador Minuchin; and the strategic therapists, especially Jay Haley. Later, David and Jill Scharff would apply object relations to couples and family work. Each of these models adopted a modernist perspective in which there was a search for the essence of what made up a functional family. Some found that essence in communication, some found it in structure and hierarchy, and some focused on the development of the person within the system. Each of these founding models is unique in its perspectives and interventions, but all of them are systemic in nature.