FEST Writing Group

Has anyone ever invited you to the church, or was it the temple or the masque of the emotional cut off? Or perhaps you automatically knew it was for the best to get rid of annoying people in your family? Perhaps you grew up with this belief. But there was no religious reason behind the.

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FEST Colleagues, Just a quick note to say we are organizing a 2 day conference on the science of meditation and family that will occur September 28+29 in Vermont.  We are bringing together Fred Travis, a NIH funded meditation researcher, Laurie Lassiter, and myself to further this multi-disciplinary dialogue.  We are accepting abstracts for 15 minute.

Stress and Social Position Laurie Lassiter   Thesis: Murray Bowen’s theory of emotional process and its unequal distribution of stress can be applied to social groups in general, from the intimacy of family to the increasing complexity of society.  Recent research provides some new twists in the epigenetics of social stress and its effects.   The Dominant Stressor in Primates   Robert.

This was the question addressed by Professor Peter J. Gianaros of the University of Pittsburgh, the guest scientist at the CFC Midwest Symposium held on May 4-5. The brief answer is: SES is SocioEconomic Status and it matters because one’s place on the socioeconomic ladder is a major factor in one’s health and.

At the 2018 Midwest Symposium on Family Theory and Family Therapy in Wilmette IL, Peter Gianaros from the University of Pittsburgh cogently argued that SES(socio-economic status determined with a composite measure) partially predicts(correlation approximately 0.30) adult serious physiological symptoms, indicators of risk for serious symptoms, and neurobiological indicators of chronic stress/anxiety. Notice that the.