FEST Writing Group

I will sketch here a paper I want to write. In the 1950s through the 1980s, there was an abundance of family research, both quantitative and clinical, which followed efforts of the major pioneers of family therapy.  A great deal of this research dealt with families of schizophrenics.  This focus expanded to the family,.

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. Read more

This short piece is an introduction to a topic I am trying to develop. 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. I’ve never been.

Recently, Laurie asked me a question which I replied to. What follows is her question and my reply. Hi Jim Edd, I have been looking toward the February FEST writing group and thinking about your work in early life adversity. I wonder where you are with it since your presentation at the Symposium. It.

The concept of anxiety binders is often used by those using Bowen theory. The concept needs definition, theoretical development, and discussion, in order to have it complement Bowen theory in a productive way. Anxiety binders are one part of a larger framework of the variety of ways we react to and manage anxiety..

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.

This is a rewrite of what I submitted two years ago. Froma Walsh in 1978 discovered some rather remarkable facts about schizophrenia. 41% of schizophrenics had a grandparent die(GD) within two years of their birth, over four times more than would have been expected in the general population. A solid explanation for that has.

Bayesian reasoning assigns probabilities of certainty/uncertainty to hypotheses about various parts of reality. Then it uses any additional new information to update the probabilities of these hypotheses. Keith Stanovich brought our rationality and dysrationality into focus in his book Rationality Quotient. Systems rationality(my term) includes the forms of rationality congruent with systems thinking. .

J.D. Vance, author of Hillbilly Elegy, is, by any measure, functionally successful. A Marine who served in Iraq, graduate of Ohio State, graduate of Yale Law School, and an editor on the Yale Law Journal. Yet, his nuclear family of origin and extended family are low in level of differentiation. Not the.

I am thinking about a possible piece of research. It is built on Bowen’s simple assertion that lower differentiation families will have more physical, social, and emotional symptoms than better differentiated families. I have always believed that this is a brilliant example of systems thinking, and one that every clinician should keep in mind as.