8va Conferencia Internacional Instituto Iberoamericano del Bowen Center
Conversación con Victoria Harrison sobre su libro Diagrama Familiar y la Investigación en la Familia, y su utilidad en el trabajo hacia la diferenciación del self en la propia familia de origen.
El Instituto Iberoamericano del Bowen Center ofrece esta octava conferencia con el objetivo de difundir los aportes que la teoría de Bowen ofrece a las grandes interrogantes y desafíos de salud mental en nuestros tiempos.
En esta oportunidad, se abordará cómo el diagrama familiar se constituye en la herramienta indispensable desde la Teoría de Bowen para comprender y articular el trabajo de diferenciación del self en la propia familia de origen. Para ello conversaremos con la connotada psicoterapeuta y docente destacada del Bowen Center, Victoria Harrison. Hablaremos sobre su última publicación editada el año 2024 denominada El Diagrama Familiar y la Investigación en la Familia, la cual ofrece una guía para quienes están motivados a desarrollar su propio diagrama familiar y utilizarlo para observar, abstraer, ver, y pensar sobre los hechos y factores que operan en su familia.
En este conversatorio se espera poner en valor el proceso de construcción del propio diagrama como condición fundamental de la formación conceptual y técnica de quienes deseen trabajar desde la Teoría de Bowen.
Las preguntas que guiarán esta conferencia serán:
a) ¿Qué es el diagrama familiar y en qué contexto surge como herramienta de comprensión y de trabajo con familias?
b) ¿De qué manera del diagrama familiar permite mapear los procesos emocionales y relacionales históricos al interior de las familias?
c) ¿Cuál es el valor que tiene el diagrama para el trabajo en la diferenciación del self?
A conversation with Victoria Harrison on her book The Family Diagram & Family Research and its usefulness in differentiating a self in the family of origin.
The Ibero-American Institute of the Bowen Center is hosting its eighth conference with the aim of sharing the contributions that Bowen theory offers to the questions and challenges of mental health in our time.
This conference will address how the family diagram constitutes an indispensable tool for understanding and articulating the work on differentiation of self in one’s own family of origin. To this end, we will speak with renowned psychotherapist and Bowen Center distinguished faculty member Vitoria Harrison about her last publication in 2024. Her book The Family Diagram & Family Research offers a guide for those motivated to develop their family diagram and use it to observe, abstract, see, and better think about the facts and factors operating in their family.
The discussion hopes to highlight the process of constructing the diagram itself as a fundamental step for the conceptual and technical training of those working with Bowen theory. Reading the book ahead of time will enrich your webinar experience.
The questions that will guide this conference are:
What is the family diagram, and in what context did it emerge as a tool for understanding and working with families?
How does the family diagram allow us to map historical, emotional, and relational processes?
What is the value of the family diagram for the work on differentiation of self?
Fecha y lugar:
8 de Mayo 2025
19:00 EST a 20:30 EST (Hora de Washington DC)
Online - Zoom
Contacto:
Para consultas por favor contactar a Carolina Allende, Coordinadora de la Conferencia.
Correo electrónico callendepinto@thebowencenter.org
Exponen:
Victoria Harrison, MA
Victoria Harrison, MA, trained in the Postgraduate Program in Family Systems Theory and Psychotherapy at the Georgetown University Family Center, 1975-1979, following graduation from Rice University in Houston, TX, and graduate school at Antioch University in Baltimore, MD. She also studied biofeedback and physiology at the Family Center, under the direction of Lilian Rosenbaum, PhD, with a clinical and research focus on health and reproduction. In 1995, she added the use of neurofeedback in psychotherapy and research based in Bowen theory. She served on the Georgetown Family Center’s clinical staff from 1978 to 1991, when she moved to Houston, TX, where she established a clinical practice and Center for the Study of Natural Systems and the Family (www.csnsf.org).
Ms. Harrison commuted from Texas to Washington, DC to serve on the faculty of the Bowen Center from 1993 to 2023. She directed the Bowen Center’s Postgraduate Program, 2003-2008 and 2010-2015. She served on the board of directors, 2011-2016 and coordinated development of the Online Introduction to Bowen Theory in 2015.
Her current research includes: (1) a study of reactivity to relationships in the family that affects health and reproduction, (2) variation in differentiation of self evident in physiological reactivity between family members, and (3) the Observations of Change Project, which documents changes in physiology and functioning associated with work on differentiation of self.
Writing projects include: The Dance of Life, a survey of emotional systems along the human phylogenetic lineage, and articles based on research projects.
She is author of My Family My Self: A Journal of Discovery, which is used for research and self-study based on Bowen theory, and The Family Diagram and Family Research.
Contact Information: vharrison@csnsf.org