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Jill Lepore writes about the trend of marriage therapy and couples counselling, and examines how the practice started, in 1930, with Paul Popenoe’s marriage clinic.
Paul Popenoe, the father of marriage counselling, ran the American Institute of Family Relations—reporters called it "the Mayo Clinic of family problems." In 1953: Dick is bored with Andrea. Solution: She learns conversation, goes on a strict diet, loses eight pounds. The affair is averted. Can this marriage be saved?