2022 October Archive | FEST Writing Group

Monthly Archives: October 2022

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October

What Do You Do When Your Brother Says: “”I am Jesus Christ?”

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Posted by Andrea

(Photographs inclueded at the end) Caution: I considered myself to be an apprentice to Murray Bowen, MD the originator of the Bowen Family System Theory for fourteen years. (1976-1990) The vulnerability of being an apprentice or of having someone make a profound difference in your life is that you over-estimate them and possibly yourself

Overview:.

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October

Systems Implications of Psychopathy

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Posted by Jim Edd

I selected this topic because I think that Bowen family systems theory has something to offer for important societal problems, like psychopathy in systems. We seem to have an epidemic of psychopathic behavior in U.S. society and internationally, certainly a part of societal regression. I have never personally encountered someone whom I for certain knew.
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October

Thoughts about theory and adjusting to the death of my husband

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Posted by Laura Havstad

Tom died November 10, 2021, over 10 months ago. We had been a pair for 53 years, married for 48 of them, parents together for 38 years. In the early days of my loss I hypothesized that the task before me in would be adjusting towards regulating myself in the areas where I had been.
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October

RECALLING THE SELF

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Posted by Erik

Dear FEST, Below in bold you will see one sentence that links my Thoreau-vian adventure with DOS. -Erik

RECALLING THE SELF

Erik Thompson

In many traditions, the path to peace is characterized as remembering, or recalling, the essence of who we are.

“We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive.
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October

Fannie McLean and Lawson’s Children

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Posted by Laurie Lassiter

Lawson Jr and McLean

In the last chapter, I asked whether one’s emotional maturity or integration is lessened when an individual automatically fills a need in the family. I chose to begin with my maternal grandmother, Fannie McLean, who was born number 8 after number 7, a brother with Down.
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