# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-weakland
# Generated: 2026-08-12T17:08:36.998Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-weakland"
name: "John Weakland"
slug: "john-weakland"
description: "John H. Weakland was one of the founders of brief and family psychotherapy. At the time of his death, he was a senior research fellow at the Mental Research Institute (MRI) in Palo Alto, California, co-director of the famous Brief Therapy Center at MRI, and a clinical associate professor emeritus in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Stanford University School of Medicine."
tagline: "American psychotherapist (1919–1995)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1919-01-08"
deathDate: "1995-07-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.85
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.940533333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "John Weakland"
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    title: "John Weakland"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Weakland"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump