How I Understand Suggestions Dr. Bowen Gave Me

Post Date March 10, 2019
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Category Bowen Family Systems Theory, Chronic Anxiety, Death & Chronic Illness, Differentiation of Self, Emotional Triangles, Family Emotional Process, Sydney K. Reed

On February 22, 2019, I presented some early family of origin work in my keynote address on Death and Chronic Illness at the Clinical Application of Bowen Family System Theory Conference. This blog post addresses a key question raised during the discussion that followed my presentation.

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Grandparent Deaths in an Intense Extended Family Symbiosis

Post Date February 26, 2019
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Category Bowen Family Systems Theory, Chronic Anxiety, Death & Chronic Illness, Differentiation of Self, Emotional Triangles, Family Emotional Process, Grief & Mourning, Jim Edd Jones

In the last two months or so, I have been studying symbiosis; e.g. parent-child symbiosis. Why? When I reviewed the quantitative research on families of schizophrenics, it was striking how symbiosis as a factor in development of schizophrenia has been neglected by all the quantitative researchers. It seemed odd when you consider how strongly Murray Bowen and other schizophrenia researchers of the 1950s had emphasized it. (Hill, Lidz, Mahler, Searles, Wynne, et al.).

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