FEST Writing Group

Both my mother and father had enormous issues in the effort to get along with one another and raise their children. As impossible as it might sound, I had not yet tried to figure out who these people were in my family—and who they were to me—until I joined the GUFC postgraduate program. For the longest.

Differentiation of Self and Socioeconomic Status

Stephanie J. Ferrera

            The level of differentiation of self that one develops over the course of childhood and early adulthood is of central importance in the quality of one’s life, and so also is the level of socioeconomic status that.

1) The first journal just declined to consider the article on Physiological Reactions in Family Triangles because they do not publish single case studies. The publisher, Taylor and Francis, recommended 5 other journals to consider for submission. I now have a list of about 50 journals and will slowly buy surely research.

This is an experience report from this week’s 2-day Differentiated Universal Self Transcendental Meditation Retreat. This is a kind of research report.

February 1, 2026

The first meditation on Friday morning was deeper than those prior to the retreat.  What does that mean?  There was a larger.

Bowen Theory and the Social Determinants of Schizophrenia

Abstract
This paper covers different aspects of schizophrenia, including how it may be a good example of Bowen’s theory of emotional process and variation in differentiation of self. Schizophrenia tends toward the low end of differentiation of self, and much can be learned from.