FEST Writing Group

As an economic unit, the family provides the material resources needed for the survival, care, and wellbeing of its members. Over the estimated 100,000 years of existence of modern humans, the conditions under which families have found, developed, produced, and distributed resources have changed dramatically. Ian Morris delineates three major modes of "energy capture"--foraging,.

Looking at marriage; seeing one’s own part Stephanie Ferrera The husband had a way of erupting emotionally that led his wife to call him “the volcano.” He pursued; she distanced; he pursued more rigorously. Her way of retreating, seemingly impervious to his needs, led him to call her “the sphinx.” At times of high.

This was the question addressed by Professor Peter J. Gianaros of the University of Pittsburgh, the guest scientist at the CFC Midwest Symposium held on May 4-5. The brief answer is: SES is SocioEconomic Status and it matters because one’s place on the socioeconomic ladder is a major factor in one’s health and.

This is a different kind of entry, a reaching out for information that could be helpful in understanding a severe problem in a family member.  I hope it will be within the mission of FESTwg for me to describe the experience of the past six months and to ask for ideas any or all of.

How humans became ultrasocial and what it means Stephanie Ferrera Economists John Gowdy and Lisi Krall published a paper, “The Economic Origins of Ultrasociality,” in the journal, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, in 2015.  They take a broad look at human social and economic evolution, concluding that humans are on a trajectory toward expansion and dominance in the.

MORTALITY AND MORALITY             Being mortal and being moral are wedded in our thinking and in our emotions. As numbered days grow fewer, one sorts out what is important from what is not.  The legacy one will leave for the future is in the important category.  Years of lived experience bring a perspective, and possibly greater.

I am interested in the interface between the concept of structural violence (from anthropology, I think) and Bowen's concept of societal regression.  Are these concepts congruent, or are there differences? Here is a description of structural violence I wrote in a recent article in Family Systems Forum: Karen Armstrong locates the origin of structural violence at the point.

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CFC Clinical 2015 Defining a self in a regressing world((Unsaved-304221743043681864)).

CFC Clinical 2015 Defining a self in a regressing world((Unsaved-304221743043681864)).