FEST Writing Group

I am working on a journal article for Family Systems about the research I did on family system shifts and weight loss and the potential for clinical science to grasp the impact of the family emotional system by tracking shifts in the family system.  I am posting here the presentation I did at the 2015.

  This piece is an introduction to  an article focussing on a clinical case that will be elaborated to  illustrate the clinical use of Bowen theory in addressing a prolonged symptomatic adjustment in a person following the death of a family member. For those who know about the findings on resilience that George Bonanno produced in his research, this.

I am thinking about the data of my research project in which changes in weight are, as theory predicts, a part of shifts in the family system. Get functioning up, anxiety down and the symptom resolves.  Getting functioning up and anxiety down almost always follows a shift in the family system. I.

My first FESTWG post was about my effort to refine a reliable method for clinical research to observe and document shifts in the family emotional process that impact clinical disorders for better and for worse.  Sometime in the last year or so as I’ve worked at this project I began to focus on the phenomena.

What is, what will be, and what should be the place of the family system variable in a science of human behavior? Last week I spent three days attending the annual convention of the Association for Psychological Science, in San Francisco this year. It is a gathering of 4,300 psychologists and it is striking that there.

Bowen theory and the psychological system -  in evolution and the family emotional system – Laura Havstad.

A method of observing and documenting shifts in the family that precede successful diet to goal weight draft- FEST October 1, 2013.