Carlos Sluzki, MD
Professor

Unit: Department of Global and Community Health
Mail Stop: 5B7
Office Location: Robinson B419
Phone: 703-993-1920
Email: csluzki@gmu.edu

Dr. Sluzki is a Professor at George Mason University with joint appointments at College of Health and Human Services and the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution. He is also Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences in Washington DC, consultant at the International Criminal Court and temporary advisor to the World Health Organization.

He has been previously Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Massachusetts (1983-93) and at the University of California San Francisco (1975-8) and Los Angeles (1994-2001) Medical Schools, Chair of the Departments of Psychiatry at Berkshire Medical Center (1983-93) and Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital (1994-2001), and Editor in Chief of the journals Family Process and American Journal of Orthopsychiatry.

Psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and family therapist by training, Dr. Sluzki specializes in systemic and narrative approaches to conflict resolution in families, organizations and other larger systems. His current focus of interest includes social networks and health, refugees, and human rights

Dr. Sluzki has contributed over 200 books, chapters, and articles in professional journals, and has presented many keynote addresses at conventions, conferences and training programs nationally and internationally.

Recent Publications

Sluzki, CE (2006): “Short term heaven, long term limbo: A visit to a refugee camp in Rwanda” Global Studies Review, 2(1):4-5. An expanded version in Spanish was published in PoSIbles: Politica, Salud Internacional y Desarrollo Sostenible, 2:11-15, 2009

Sluzki, CE (2006): “Victimizacion, recuperacion, y las historias con ‘mejor forma’ ” (“Victimization, recovery, and the ‘better formed’ stories”) (in Spanish) Sistemas Familiares, 22(1-2):5-20

Sluzki, CE (2007): “Toward an evolving theory of practice.” Family Process, 46(2):173-84.

Sluzki, CE (2007): “The interface between family and genomics.” Journal of Family Psychotherapy, 18(1):1-9.

Sluzki, CE (2008): “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, 2008.

Sluzki, CE (2008): “”The Ancient Cult of Madame: When therapists trade curiosity for certainty.” Journal of Family Therapy (UK), 30:119-130.

Sluzki CE (2008): “Migration: A social networks perspective” {chapter for Scabini, E. & Rossi, G, Eds. (2008): La migrazione come evento familiare. (Migration as a family event) (in Italian). Milan, Vita e Pensiero Press

Sluzki CE (2008): “From the schizophrenogenic mother to the genotypic vulnerability: Update on the theme ‘Family and schizophrenia’.” Revista Lationamericana de Psiquiatria, 9:24-34 (in Spanish)

Sluzki CE (2008): “Saudades at the edge of the self and the merits of portable families” Transcultural Psychiatry, 45:379-390