This is a column I wrote on the Israel-Hamas war and was published in the local newspaper in Oak Park, IL

No one wins the ‘blame game’

by Stephanie Ferrera December 12, 2023

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VH here responding to Laurie Lassiter's comments via email. Here is a round a bout reply re: who do I view as the reader? I began this project in 1992 after moving away from immersion in Bowen theory communities of thinkers and the science available at GT, the Smithsonian, and elsewhere,.

The thinking here was spurred by recent news of the death of Russian mercenary leader, Yevgeny Prigozhin, and information in the news about his life and activities.  The founder of the Wagner group, Prigozhin built a fortune by organizing militias, groups of fighters who could be employed for combat or security services by.

Sexual reproduction: Nature’s gift, Nature’s Challenge work in progress by Stephanie Ferrera “We are very different people. We just can’t communicate.” These are words often spoken by couples in marriage counselling. Sexual reproduction brings two “very different people” together in a partnership that has the potential to bring new life into the world, to form the foundation.

I have been fascinated with the book and the PBS documentary, both titled: The Serengeti Rules. Molecular biologist, scientist writer, and gifted story-teller Sean B.Carroll, proposes that complex biological systems are regulated by rules. The first hundred pages cover a century or more of science in physiology, genetics, and neuroscience to discern the rules.

Learning Bowen Theory My first acquaintance with the thinking of Murray Bowen was through reading “On the Differentiation of Self,” the paper in which Dr. Bowen presents his theory and describes how it guided his effort toward differentiation of self in his own family. In my first couple of readings, I understood little of the.

I am asking festwgers to review my post of February 2019 on the family as an economic unit and an emotional unit. I am continuing to work on the question of how economic conditions interface with the family emotional system. I am intrigued with the work of John Gowdy, an ecological evolutionary economist..

The social hierarchy and Laurie Lassiter’s chapter in the Handbook of Bowen Family Systems Theory and Research Methods I have been interested in the subject of the social hierarchy for a while. My reading of Sapolsky, deWaal, E. O. Wilson, and other scientists has helped me understand the adaptive value of groups organizing rank orders.

Pat, Having followed your writing and presentations over years, I was pleased and impressed to see this chapter that has now been published in the new book on research based on Bowen Theory (ed. Keller and Noone). You have brought together many strands of your work, both personal and professional, into a cohesive whole..

This is an abstract of a presentation to be given at the Bowen Center Spring Conference next April. The conference title is "Creating a climate for change." I will appreciate ideas and comments. The Growth Dynamic Stephanie Ferrera Growth is the natural activity of all living organisms. On the subject of reproduction, Darwin wrote: There is.