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 Key figures: Jay Haley, Cloe Madanes, Mara Selvini Palazzoli, Paul Watzlawick, John WeaklandBy the 1980s, Minuchin’s work was often integrated with the problem-solution focus of the strategic therapists. Strategic therapists focused on the possibilities for change in systems that they understood to be hierarchies of power and function. Many of these practitioners were influenced by the theories and systemic thinking of Gregory Bateson as well as the indirect messages and trance work of Milton H. Erickson. This was especially true of Jay Haley and the practitioners at the Mental Research Institute in Palo Alto, California, where a focus on brief family therapy was first introduced. In turn, strategic therapists in the United States would also influence the strategic model in Milan, Italy, where Mara Selvini Palazzoli and her associates would focus on paradox, counterparadox, and circular (or relational) questioning.