How did Don Jackson influence the field of family therapy? How did Watts influence the steam engine? He made it. Others have refined the steam engine into a better, more efficient machine. I'd say that is what Don did for family therapy, he established the discipline. Others have gone on to refine it.
It is the custom to sneer at the modern apartment-house, television, big-city Christmas, with its commercial taint. . . office parties, artificial. . . Christmas trees. . . but future generations in search of their lost Christmases may well remember its innocence; yes, and its beauty, too.