The social hierarchy and Laurie Lassiter’s chapter in the Handbook of Bowen Family Systems Theory and Research Methods
I have been interested in the subject of the social hierarchy for a while. My reading of Sapolsky, deWaal, E. O. Wilson, and other scientists has helped me understand the adaptive value of groups organizing rank orders.
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Monthly Archives: June 2020
The Symptom and the System: As modelled in the Family Diagram app by Patrick Stinson
With the Applied variables of the Havstad Model, A Framework for Clinical research Based on Bowen Theory
Hello Festwg,
The link above is to a 30 minute video I just recorded, demonstrating the use of Patrick Stinson’s Family Diagram App with.
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Being the other
Posted by Barbara Le Blanc
The protests across the United States have gotten me thinking about the many conversations I’ve had with my son and stepdaughter about race. They also have renewed my questions about what it means to be “the other” in society and what Bowen theory has to say about that.
My family is racially mixed. My husband and.
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The first part is what I posted last time. The rest is new.
Years ago I heard from somebody that Murray Bowen had been asked, “What is the single best indicator of level of differentiation?” And that he answered, “occupational attainment”, or “educational attainment”.
I don’t know if he said any of this.
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