Topic summary
Marriage counseling
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Couples therapy.
History
Marriage counseling first gained recognition in Germany and Austria following World War I. The first institutes for marriage counseling in the United States started in the 1930s, partly in response to Germany's medically directed, racial purification marriage counseling centers. It was promoted by prominent American eugenicists such as Paul Popenoe, who directed the American Institute of Family Relations until 1976; Robert Latou Dickinson, and by birth control advocates such as Abraham and Hannah Stone who wrote A Marriage Manual in 1935 and were involved with Planned Parenthood, as well as Lena Levine and Margaret Sanger.