My first FESTWG post was about my effort to refine a reliable method for clinical research to observe and document shifts in the family emotional process that impact clinical disorders for better and for worse. Sometime in the last year or so as I’ve worked at this project I began to focus on the phenomena.
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Yearly Archives: 2014
Emotional climate change in a baboon troop
In 1978, neuroscientist Robert Sapolsky began spending summers each year in the Masai Mara National Reserve in Kenya studying and “virtually living with” a troop of free-ranging savanna baboons. He named them the Forest Troop. His early research focused on the relationship between social rank and stress-related.
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Brain Plasticity
Posted by Jim Edd
This is part of my attempt to absorb relevant facts from recent research about learning and central nervous system plasticity.
October 5, 2014
Brain Plasticity
Jim Edd Jones
The brain is dynamic, changeable, and continually fluctuating. Until the last 35-40 years, the central nervous system was thought to be fixed and unchangeable once it had completed its developmental.
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Note: I have a notion that I would like to introduce a little Bowen theory to the public conversation about domestic violence. I have cred: I was part of a violence-spawning marriage for 11 years. Things broke. I got hurt. And, remarkably, Bowen theory helped me think my way through it. The marriage didn’t survive, but.
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Reflections
Posted by Ann Nicholson
I continue to work on a project to understand the variation in behavior in living organisms to the presence and absence of resources and how a changing environment influences interactions between and among organisms and groups of organisms.
I am trying to gather information from the natural world to explore evidence of the same instinctive process.
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some thoughts on emotional cutoff: and bridging emotional cutoff
These segments are from a slideshow I did for a webcast in March for the Rutgers Bowen theory trainees. I wanted to look at the material again this week, as my 24-year-old moved out two days ago to live with friends. The triangle of son, his.
PDF Version--Examining Differentiation from a Developmental Perspective-FINAL
let's see if this works.
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“It’s the Family, Stupid”
Posted by Andrea
Violence appears to be on the rise. People are asking for explanations. We are faced with a cluster of events - Sandy Hook, the Boston Bombings, the California killings, a California man arrested for a possible bombing attempt, followed by a rogue shooter in Norfolk Va., who did not even make the national news as.
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What is, what will be, and what should be the place of the family system variable in a science of human behavior?
Last week I spent three days attending the annual convention of the Association for Psychological Science, in San Francisco this year. It is a gathering of 4,300 psychologists and it is striking that there.
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No behavior is isolated.
Posted by Jim Edd
Every behavior has a systems context; there are no isolated behaviors.
Jim Edd Jones
The word ‘behavior’ has been a staple of psychology since early in the 20th century. How we think with that word has been imprinted by Pavlov’s classic experiments and then later by the John Watson and B.F. Skinner branches of behaviorism. .
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