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I am interested in the interface between the concept of structural violence (from anthropology, I think) and Bowen's concept of societal regression.  Are these concepts congruent, or are there differences? Here is a description of structural violence I wrote in a recent article in Family Systems Forum: Karen Armstrong locates the origin of structural violence at the point.

I presented this at the spring meeting and am writing it up for a book chapter. I'm interested in what makes sense to readers and what doesn't. Laura From the perspective of Bowen theory with the focus on the family as an emotional unit, it appears that people are often less affected by life events like.

TITLE:  Does Meditation Foster Differentiation of Self?   Erik Thompson, MA Licensed Psychologist-Masters Principal, Thompson Leadership Development, Inc. and Executive Director, Vermont Center for Family Studies   “Just as a solid rock is not shaken by the storm, even so the wise are not affected by praise or blame.”   -The Yoga Vashishtha, 6^th Century BC   Bowen theorists have developed a unique set of tools for.

In the last three months or so, I have been studying symbiosis; e.g. parent-child symbiosis. Why? When I reviewed the quantitative research on families of schizophrenics, it was striking how symbiosis as a factor in development of schizophrenia has been neglected by all the quantitative researchers. It seemed odd when you consider.

We see blame and scapegoating in politics and just about everywhere today. Most of the candidates can easily find something to complain about, and mock the others, and sure enough their poll numbers go up. Understanding how automatically small two against one triangles begin in the family, whereby one person is scapegoated to bring the.

Four hundred years before the Holocaust, Martin Luther decried Jews in the most inflammatory terms. He said they drank the blood of Christian children, and called for their killing, the taking of their property and the burning of their homes. Scholars draw a line from those words to the systematic extermination of European Jews under.

The following is a first draft of a review that I will develop for publication. The last 60 years of research with families of schizophrenics have produced some reliable observations that are worth thinking about and worth considering their implications for how we think about the development of severe psychopathology and then its course after it.

I am working on  expanding my thinking on man's relationship with the earth. I have been reading Jared Diamond's book "Guns, Germs and Steel" for the second time. I am struck by the fact that food production allowed for small groups or tribes to increase their populations as well as support members who were free to.

I am working on a journal article for Family Systems about the research I did on family system shifts and weight loss and the potential for clinical science to grasp the impact of the family emotional system by tracking shifts in the family system.  I am posting here the presentation I did at the 2015.

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