On a personal note, I feel deeply honored to have known James Framo. We both were from Philadelphia. I trained at the Family Institute of Philadelphia where Jim was a founding member. I was thrilled when he decided to come to San Diego to teach at USIU, where he was eventually designated as a Distinguished Professor. I felt privileged to have been on the full time faculty with him at USIU for several years. During the years I directed the Family Psychology program at USIU, Jim and I created an exciting well organized program for masters and doctoral studies. During the mid 80s and early 90s, many visiting distinguished professors and pioneers in Family Psychiatry, Psychology, and Social Work including Ivan Nagy, Norman Paul, Carl Whitaker, Virginia Satir, Israel Charney, and Maurizio Andolphi taught at USIU and conducted continued education workshops for the San Diego community.
Jim was an unusual elder in the field of family psychology; he treated students and colleagues as equals and facilitated personal and professional growth with others around the world where he taught over 300 powerful workshops. He was kind, down to earth, and loved his work! He was a wonderful role model for many colleagues. Jim has left an important legacy to our field. His work will continue to have impact on the field of family psychology for many students in the future who deeply care about family life. At the core of his work are the basic elements of compassion, love and forgiveness that is at the very heart of healing and is the necessary glue that bonds generation to generation.
Jim was not only my close colleague, mentor, but most importantly my friend. We shared many interests in common including the love of jazz, movies, and good food—we both loved cheese steaks from Philly. We were both able to share and comfort each other in our private lives as well as talk shop if we chose too. What I loved most about Jim was his little boy spirit that was full of curiosity and enthusiasm about life that was with him even in his later years.
My heart grieves the loss of Jim; he was truly a unique spirit! I am glad our souls intertwined in this life time. I will miss him deeply!
Sheldon Z. Kramer,PhD is in full time private practice in La Jolla, California. He is Clinical Instructor of Psychiatry at UCSD Medical School, Department of Psychiatry , and the author of two books:Transforming the Inner and Outer Family: Humanistic and Spiritual Approaches to Mind- Body Systems Therapy(1995) andHidden Faces of the Soul: Ten Secrets for Mind-Body Healing from Kabbalah's Lost Tree of Life(2000). He is an international teacher in Marital and Family Therapy and Mind-Body Medicine where he has set up on-going training programs including Israel, Turkey, and Italy.
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