Thank You for Giving to the 2007 - 2008
Annual Fund for the Advancement of Bowen Theory

January, 2008            

Dear Friends and Colleagues:

On behalf of the faculty and staff of the Bowen Center, I would like to thank you very much for your donation to our Annual Fund for the Advancement of Bowen theory.

As a small gift back to you, and in the spirit of my fondness for quotable quotes, I offer this verse from the works of Rudyard Kipling:

Father, Mother, and Me,
Sister and Auntie say
All the people like us are We,
And Everyone else is They,
And They live over the sea,
While We live over the way,
But—would you believe it?—They look upon We
As only a sort of They.

I like the quote because it describes the world in which we live and it reminds me of the gift of Bowen theory. As you know, the theory addresses the ‘We and They’ phenomenon that Kipling describes and the typically disastrous consequences which can occur when this phenomenon is amplified by anxiety.

The Center is busy with many tasks at present, including preparations for the upcoming Spring Conference, Schizophrenia: Diagnosis is not Destiny. The conference will reflect the Center’s efforts to define a self and contribute a badly needed systems perspective to a psychiatric environment dominated by a biological understanding of illness. Detailed information is posted on the website. I hope you can be there.

 

Best regards,

 

Michael E. Kerr, M.D.
Director