Violence in Society

Post Date February 22, 2019
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Category Bowen Family Systems Theory, Chronic Anxiety, John Bell, Societal Emotional Process, Societal Regression

Following the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School where 19-year-old Nikolas Cruz killed seventeen people and wounded seventeen more, I found myself in a conversation (really a debate) with a gun rights advocate. I’m grateful for the conversation because it helped clarify my thinking about gun violence and violence in general.

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Science & Bowen Family Systems Theory

Post Date May 15, 2018
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Category Annual Conferences, Bowen Family Systems Theory, Cecilia Guzman, Leslie Ann Fox, Robert J. Noone, Sydney K. Reed

Dr. Murray Bowen was well known to be extremely interested and well read in the natural sciences. One of his main goals was to connect the study of human behavior and functioning to the natural sciences including neuroscience, immunology, genetics, & evolutionary biology to name a few. To this end he established the tradition of hosting annual symposia in which a well-established scientist would be invited to present his/her work to the Bowen community. According to Dr. Robert Noone, “Dr. Bowen was keeping the theory …

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Connecting Inflammation, Depression and Compassion Meditation Training

Post Date May 8, 2014
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Category Bowen Family Systems Theory, Family Therapy, Leslie Ann Fox

Authored by Leslie Ann Fox

Did you know that only 10% of the cells in our bodies are mammalian—that 90% are bacteria? When someone can think in evolutionary ways all the way back to when all life on earth was bacteria, and see that we humans are still primarily bacteria, it really gets you thinking differently about your family history…but I will leave that for another day.

At the 31st Annual Midwest Symposium in Wilmette, IL on May 2nd and 3rd, 2014, Charles Raison, MD presented his …

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