FEST Writing Group

Background: My younger sister, Suzanne, has two daughters. Hannah, the oldest, has been the one most focused on, and the one Suzanne has the most intense reactions to.  Emily, 30, and Suzanne take daily walks together and have an easy supportive relationship.  Emily works full time as a physical therapist.  Hannah is in graduate school.  Though.

Draft for FEST: Ideas for presentation at the 2020 Symposium, The human family as a product of evolution—Any ideas about this draft? Including how does the multigenerational emotional process fit with evolution?  Thank you for any feedback, Laurie   Murray Bowen described in detail how a human family tends to compromise the functioning of one or more members,.

Stephanie, I was impressed with your comprehensive article in the recent Family Systems journal.  If you would like, I think FEST could be a forum for responses to it. There is much to learn and to ponder in your article, so I will only pick out some small points. The way you describe the natural hierarchy that.

I found this article interesting, especially regarding how long a couple were together before deciding to have a child.  While the authors have a biological explanation for why a child conceived soon after a marriage or the formation of a long-term bond may be at increased risk for schizophrenia, I believe Bowen theory offers another.

Stress and Social Position Laurie Lassiter   Thesis: Murray Bowen’s theory of emotional process and its unequal distribution of stress can be applied to social groups in general, from the intimacy of family to the increasing complexity of society.  Recent research provides some new twists in the epigenetics of social stress and its effects.   The Dominant Stressor in Primates   Robert.

Hi All, Laura had asked me about what I had learned in working with parents at the Child Guidance Clinic in Springfield, so I started to write something up, which then changed into something quite different from what Laura had requested!  But it was an interesting exercise for me . . . It’s too long, but if.

"The Emotional System: What am I Missing?"  On Friday, Oct. 6, at 12:00 pm, I will begin with a short slide presentation to generate discussion about the Emotional System with Stephanie and Jim Edd, and any others who can participate on Zoom for 25-30 minutes. One issue for me is how to keep the concept of.

Undifferentiated Family Ego Mass--this is a short piece I submitted recently to an online encyclopedia on family theory and therapy and submitting it here for any feedback, would like to develop it further.  I enjoyed thinking about this early term. The undifferentiated family ego mass was an early term that Murray Bowen used to describe his.

The biologist Lynn Margulis would sometimes comment on what she saw as the greed and egocentrism of Homo sapiens. A lack of knowledge and appreciation of other forms of life is readily apparent in the human’s conventional view of bacteria, microorganisms Margulis knew well. Historically, this major domain of life has been studied by the.

Following is just a collection of (somewhat) related ideas, more like questions really, begun as a planned talk that was uncompleted for the New England Seminar on Bowen Theory’s Societal conference, 10/02/15. Thank you for any ideas, objections, or questions!   I got started by an interest in Pope Frances and the statements by many that what.