Family Systems Issue 11.2
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Table of Contents: 11.2
FROM THE EDITOR
Robert J. Noone, PhD
ARTICLES: Journal articles reflect natural systems thinking or are relevant to it. These may include concept papers as well as research studies.
EXTENDED FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS: A COMPARISON OF HIGH AND LOW SYMPTOM FAMILIES
Phillip Klever, LCSW, LMFT
Bowen theory contends that viable emotional contact with the multigenerational family contributes to a more orderly, asymptomatic life. This article describes a fifteen-year research study that tested this hypothesis. The study examined extended family relationships of five low symptom nuclear families and five high symptom nuclear families.
LEARNING FROM THE NURSES’ NOTES FOR BOWEN’S 1954-1959 NIMH PROJECT: A WINDOW INTO THE DEVELOPMENT OF THEORY
Catherine M. Rakow, MSW
From 1954 to 1959, the nurses in ward 3E—of the NIMH Clinical Center building, in Bethesda, MD—kept detailed notes of psychiatric patient behavior based on twenty-four hour observations. These ward nurses played an integral role in Dr. Murray Bowen’s research into human family behavior. This paper analyzes the notes for August 1955, offering a unique window into the nurses’ practices of objective observation and disciplined psychiatric care, while also showing us their contribution to Bowen’s process of developing what would eventually become his theory of the family as an emotional system.
FACULTY CASE CONFERENCE: Presentation of a faculty clinical case, followed by a discussion with faculty members of the Bowen Center.
THE FAMILY PROJECTION PROCESS WHEN THE FATHER IS THE PRIMARY CAREGIVER
Mariana Martinez, PsyD
The family projection process describes the triangle formed by mother, father, and child, the underlying fusion among them, and the anxiety that emerges from the undifferentiation. The original formulation of the family projection process points to the intense mother-child fusion with the support of the father on the outside angle. This presentation describes two families with symptomatic children that illustrates this phenomenon.
BOOK REVIEWS: Reviews on books relevant to Bowen theory and its many applications.
THE SIXTH EXTINCTION: AN UNNATURAL HISTORY
Elizabeth Kolbert
Reviewed by Anne S. McKnight, EdD