FEST Writing Group

Reading Jim Edd on mind and brain, Victoria on triangles in evolution, and Erik's thoughts on where science is hobbled, I was stimulated to post what I wrote and presented in Santa Rosa in 1995 which concerns mind, behavior, evolution and the integration of siloed disciplines. I very.

Jim Edd Jones

October 1, 2025

Brain and mind.  Too many people confuse the two these days, to the neglect of mind.  Studies of brain seem to look for what parts of the brain are active when an organism is engaged in some.

Are you curious about the family you live in? One way to see how one's system operates is by drawing up the family diagram. The questions Dr. Andres posed when I began the supervision portion of my postgraduate training started to shift my perspective—these family deaths were not just isolated losses. A system was.

FEST group: In this piece, I’m writing about Bowen theory without using the theory language--for people unfamiliar with the theory. Any comments or suggestions welcomed.

I am! I am!

“Would you like to work as a camp counselor this summer?” Dad asked me when I was 12..

I'm too caught up to patiently comment on all these strong pieces. I am amply impressed with them all and will continue to think on them. Thanks FESTWG and Laurie for organizing this and keeping it going.

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During supervision at GUFC, Dr. Bud Andres asked me, "Who do you have to hang onto?" I hadn't considered that question before. The family roots were drying up, dying left and right, and I had not even seen that as a problem. All the successive deaths had just been “things” that were happening. I.

I am working on a presentation for the New England Seminar conference, on relationship to the land and to each other. I chose to read Richard Lee's work as an anthropologist in the early 1960s of the !Kung San in Southern Africa. I recently found a 2018 article by him in which.

Two recent books have broadened my perspective on my young adult life and the perception of my parents and ex-husband that I was a threat.  That perception led them to take steps that led to my arrest and to a 7 year long cutoff from my daughter and family. A book by Thorne Dryer.

Note: This winter Lorna Hecht-Zablow published a well written piece in Family Systems Forum on erosion of theory. I talked to Lorna, then published a response this spring. There is some connection between that piece and this one.

These thoughts were stimulated after Patrick Stinson’s visit to.

Understanding living systems must recognize that such systems do not operate one variable at a time.  Groups of variables work together to produce a result.  All the research studies which report results for only one or two variables in a living system are misleading.

When one looks at statistical results.