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Fam Proc 36:#1-i, 1997

In Memoriam: Michael J. Goldstein, Ph.D. (June 28, 1930-March 13, 1997)

LYMAN C. WYNNE, M.D., PH.D. Michael Goldstein was a giant among mental health professionals. Identified first as a clinical research psychologist, he was equally distinguished as a family therapist, as a psychopathologist and psychopharmacologist, and as a beloved teacher, mentor, and colleague. Born in New York City, Mike moved westward for his college and graduate school education in Iowa and Seattle, before beginning his 40-year career on the faculty at UCLA. For two full decades, he substantially helped shape the development of Family Process, both as a loyal contributing author and as an incisively thoughtful friend and colleague on the journal's board of Directors. What was perhaps most extraordinary about Mike's career was the diversity of the special fields of research and therapy in which he was widely recognized as an innovator and integrator. In the late 1960s he was one of the founders of the field of longitudinal research on risk and protective factors in schizophrenia. Rather than focusing on one domain of variables, the speial approach of the UCLA team was to study the interaction between maladjustment of individual adolescents and the relational patterns of their families as joint predictors of later schizophrenia-related disorder (Goldstein, Judd, Rodnick, et al., 1968). This work became closely linked to a series of studies of premorbid adjustment and social functioning, of paranoid versus nonparanoid patterns of schizophrenic disorders, and of responsiveness to antipsychotic medications (Goldstein, 1970). I believe that Mike deserves credit for being the first to spell out the details of what he called crisis-oriented family therapy applied in combination with, rather than in opposition to, antipsychotic medication for the prevention of relapse of schizophrenic psychosis (Goldstein, 1981). He systematically varied low and high dosages of medication with and without family intervention. He was the first to document empirically the efficacy of family intervention for a major mental disorder. In addition, Mike was keenly interested in examining the processes and conditions for successful family interventions. These studies were carried out with an outstanding assemblage of students, fellows and colleaguesincluding, but not restricted to Doane, J.E. Jones, Miklowitz, Hahlweg, Strachan, Velligan, Tompson, Falloon, Asarnow, and Nuechterlein. They developed and/or applied methods of predicting and assessing change, using concepts such as Expressed Emotion, Communication Deviance, and Affective Style. In recent years, Mike had gone on from his emphasis on schizophrenia to new work on bipolar disorder. A splendidly integrative volume with David Miklowitz on a family-focused treatment approach to bipolar disorder had fortunately already gone to press shortly before Mike's death (Miklowitz & Goldstein, 1997). Over the years, going back to a Fulbright Award in Denmark in 1960-61, Mike lectured and collaborated in many countries beyound the United States. Indeed, he had spoken in Canada and Europe only weeks before he became terminally ill. His lucid, forthright style of thinking and presentation was exemplary and greatly valued. His colleagues, friends, and, most of all, of course, his wife Vida and their three children were stunned at the all too sudden, unexplected end. Mike, you are sorely missed.

REFERENCES
1. 2. 3. Goldstein M. J. (Ed.), (1981) New developments in interventions with families of schizophrenics. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. Goldstein M. J., (1970) Premorbid adjustment, paranoid status, and patterns of response to phenothiazine in acute schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 3, 24-37. Goldstein M. J., Judd L. L., Rodnick E. H., Alkire A. A. and Gould E., (1968) A method for the study of social influence and coping patterns in the families of disturbed adolescents. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 147, 233-251. Miklowitz D. J. and Goldstein M. J., (1983) Bipolar disorder: A family-focused treatment approach. New York: Guilford Publications.

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