FEST Writing Group

I wasn't going to post this period because I returned from a trip to France Monday to a series of mishaps and emergencies at home -- a gravely sick father-in-law, an elderly mother whose cochlear implant died, a crashed computer and finally a violently ill dog. All in a week of an unusually heavy client.

Tonight there was a tape of presidential candidate, Donald Trump, talking about how his power gave him access to woman in a sexual way. Most people are reacting to this tape in a way they have not reacted to many of the other things he has said, including "I could stand in the middle of.

  This is an abstract I submitted for the societal conference sponsored by the New England Seminar. I am working on the presentation but I do not have a finished version yet. A VIEW OF THE EMOTIONAL SYSTEM – RESISTANCE TO CLIMATE CHANGE Science has never been clearer regarding the facts of climate change. The vast majority of.

Bowen theory and Vedic wisdom are distinct bodies of knowledge. But how complimentary are they?  Among the traditional methods of growing basic self in Bowen theory, is transcendence a viable addition? Many Bowen theorists agree that meditation, like exercise, can help people cope and function better.  But can it do more? This essay continues my.

MORTALITY AND MORALITY             Being mortal and being moral are wedded in our thinking and in our emotions. As numbered days grow fewer, one sorts out what is important from what is not.  The legacy one will leave for the future is in the important category.  Years of lived experience bring a perspective, and possibly greater.

I am thinking about a possible piece of research. It is built on Bowen’s simple assertion that lower differentiation families will have more physical, social, and emotional symptoms than better differentiated families. I have always believed that this is a brilliant example of systems thinking, and one that every clinician should keep in mind as.