Articles by Author

2006. Review of “Patients Have Families” by Henry B. Richardson. Family Systems 7(2):180-192.

2017. “Emotional Process in Society: A Review and Expansion of the Concept.” Family Systems 13(1):9-34.

1997. Review of “The Witch Doctors: Making Sense of Management Gurus” by John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge; “Emotional Intelligence” by Daniel Goleman; “Organizing Genius: The Secrets of Creative Collaboration” by Warren Bennis and Patricia Ward Biederman; “The Living Company” by Arie De Geus. Family Systems 4(1):85-95.

and Julia B. Gippenreiter, PhD. 1996. “The Effects of Stalin’s Purge on Three Generations of Russian Families.” Family Systems 3(1):5-35.

1996. “An Animal Model for the Intergenerational Transmission of Maternal Style?” Family Systems 3(2):125-140.

2001. Review of “The Emotional Brain: The Mysterious Underpinnings of Emotional Life” by Joseph LeDoux. Family Systems 5(2):188-192.

2001. “Variation and Stability in Evolution: From Bacteria to Human Behavior.” Family Systems 5(2):127-133.

1996. “How Somatic Variation Leads to Differentiation: From Cells to Humans.” Family Systems 3(2):101-108.

1994. “Differentiation in Cellular, Social, and Family Systems.” Family Systems 1(1):20-32.

2017. Archives. “A Systems View of the Aging Process.” Family Systems 13(1):47-61.

2017. Archives. “A Letter from Murray Bowen About Lewis Hill.” Family Systems 12(2):147-155.

2015. Archives. “A Letter from Murray Bowen to Dr. Alexander Gralnick.” Family Systems 11(1): 49-60.

2013. Archives: “Subjectivity, Homo Sapiens, and Science.” Family Systems 9(2):101-106.

2004. Archives: “Family Psychotherapy in Office Practice.” Family Systems 7(1):29-44.

With an Introduction by Ruth Riley Sagar, MA and Catherine Murphy Rakow, MSW.

1995. Archives: “Clinical View of the Family.” Family Systems 2(2):153-156.

With an Introduction by Catherine Murphy Rakow, MSW

1995. Archives: “A Psychological Formulation of Schizophrenia.” Family Systems 2(1):17-47.

With an Introduction by Catherine Murphy Rakow, MSW

2017. Faculty Case Conference: “Triangles, Fusion, and the Challenge to be a Self.” Family Systems 13(1):63-78.

2017. “Within-Family Variability: The Family Projection Process in an Adopted Family.” Family Systems 12(2):107-128.

2013. Faculty Case Conference: “Bridging Emotional Cutoff: Towards Becoming A Self.” Family Systems 10(1):71-85.

1998. “Family Process and Variability in Human Aging.” Family Systems 4(2):107-118.

2011. Review of “The Balance Within: The Science Connecting Health and Emotions” by Esther M. Sternberg. Family Systems 8(2):177-180.

2004. Review of “Love at Goon Park: Harry Harlow and the Science of Affection” by Deborah Blum. Family Systems 7(1):91-96.

2003. Brief Report: “Estate Planning and Family Relationships: A Commentary on an Estate Distribution Method.” Family Systems 6(2):161-169.

1996. Faculty Case Conference: “Societal Responses to Juvenile Violence in a Small Town (Neighborhood).” Family Systems 3(2):166-190.

2013. “Family Psychotherapy: The First Evolutionary Stage During The NIMH Family Study Project.” Family Systems 10(1):29-42.

2012. Review of “Our Son, Ken” by Sarah E. Lorenz. Family Systems 9(1):81-87.

2011. “Bowen’s NIMH Family Study Project and the Origins of Family Psychotherapy.” Family Systems 8(2):135-142.

2003. Review of “Emotional Contagion” by Hatfield, Cacioppo, and Rapson. Family Systems 6(2): 186-191.

1999. “Bowen Theory and Health Care Costs in the United States.” Family Systems 5(1):7-17.

1994. “What Kind of System is the Family?” Family Systems 1(1):7-19.

1997. “Naturally Constrained Social Systems.” Family Systems 4(1):19-33.

1995. “Natural Selection, Technology, and Anxiety.” Family Systems 2(2):138-152.

1994. Review of “Primate Social Systems” by Robin I. M. Dunbar. Family Systems 1(2):186-192.

2017. “Death of a Sibling.” Family Systems 12(2):129-145.

1998. “Biology and Relationships: Adaptation in Nature.” Family Systems 4(2):99-106.

and Molly Embree. 1997. “The Triadic Nature of Primate Social Relationships.” Family Systems 4(1):5-18.

2017. Review of “Mindset: The New Psychology of Success” by Carol S. Dweck Family Systems 12(2):185-190.

2016. “Bonding and Babies: The Evolution of Biparental Care and the Primary Triangle.” Family Systems 12(1):9-28.

1994. Review of “Sex and Friendship in Baboons” by Barbara Boardman Smuts. Family Systems 1(1):81-84.

2017. Review of “Women After All: Sex, Evolution, and the End of Male Supremacy.” Family Systems 13(1):87-95.

1999. Commentary: “What is Help? A Theoretical and Personal Perspective.” Family Systems 5(1):44-55.

1995. Commentary: “Morality, Neutrality, and Differentiation of Self.” Family Systems 2(1):48-61.

1994. “Neutrality in a Violent World.” Family Systems 1(1):44-56.

2016. Faculty Case Conference: “Defining a Self in Multiple Relationships.” Family Systems 12(1):55-72.

1997. Faculty Case Conference: “Neurofeedback and the Developing Child.” Family Systems 4(1):63-83.

2016. Faculty Case Conference: “Defining a Self in Multiple Relationships.” Family Systems 12(1):55-72.

2016. Review of “Brainwashed: The Seductive Appeal of Mindless Neuroscience” by Sally Satel and Scott O. Lilienfeld. Family Systems 12(1):85-89.

1994. Brief Report: “Addiction to Prescribed Medications.” Family Systems 1(1):57-66.

1996. “A Natural Family System.” Family Systems 3(2):109-124.

2016. Review of “Differentiation of Self: Bowen Family Systems Perspectives” by Peter Titelman, ed. Family Systems 12(1):91-94.

2013. “Contribution of Nuclear Family Triangles to Variation in Physiological Reactivity.” Family Systems 9(2):145-153.

1999. Review of “Medicine at the Crossroads” by Melvin Konner. Family Systems 5(1):91-95.

1997. “Family Emotional Process, Reactivity, and Patterns of Ovulation.” Family Systems 4(1):49-62.

1994. “Bowen Family Systems Theory and the Inpatient Psychiatric Unit.” Family Systems 1(1):33-43.

2011. Archives: “Survival and the Family of Extinction.” Family Systems 8(2):143-161.

With an Introduction by Ruth Riley Sagar, MA.

1996. “Gender and Bowen Theory.” Family Systems 3(1):52-63.

1995. Faculty Case Conference: “A Multiproblem Family in a Social Service Agency.” Family Systems 2(1):62-86.

1994. Review of “Family and Social Network” by Elizabeth Bott. Family Systems 1(2):178-185.

2017. Review of “The Family Emotional System: An Integrative Concept for Theory, Science, and Practice” by Robert J. Noone and Daniel V. Papero. Family Systems 12(2):177-183.

1995. Review of “Naturalist” by Edward O. Wilson. Family Systems 2(2):187-191.

1999. “Anxiety and Differentiaton: Factors in the Variation in Response to Psychoactive Medication.” Family Systems 5(1):31-43.

1996. “Differentiation and Chronic Anxiety: Variation in Emotional Functioning.” Family Systems 3(2):141-152.

1994. “Chronic Anxiety, the Adrenocortical Response, and Differentiation.” Family Systems 1(2):127-141.

2017. Faculty Case Conference: “Anxiety and the Nuclear Family System.” Family Systems 12(2):157-174.

2014. Faculty Case Conference: “The Value of Defining a Self with One’s Spouse.” Family Systems 10(2):163-174.

2004. “Heroin Addicts, Family, and Recovery: A Pilot Study.” Family Systems 7(1):45-66.

2006. “A Case Study: Efforts toward Differentiation of Self among Slaves and Their Descendants.” Family Systems 7(2):103-121.

2013. “Using Maternal Style or Differentiation of Self to Explore Variation in Functioning of Offspring.” Family Systems 9(2):114-116.

2004. Faculty Case Conference: “A Methodological Experiment with a Quasi Mother Child Relationship.” Family Systems 7(1):67-82.

2001. Faculty Case Conference: “Multiple Family Therapy.” Family Systems 6(1):77-96>.

1999. “The Projection Process in Health Care Systems.” Family Systems 5(1):71-80.

1994. Faculty Case Conference: “Abuse as a Symptom of the Family System.” Family Systems 1(1):67-80.

2017. Review of “How to Tame a Fox (and Build a Dog): Visionary Scientists and a Siberian Tale of Jump-Started Evolution” by Lee Alan Dugatkin and Lyudmila Trut. Family Systems 13(1):81-85.

2013. Wilson’s Ideas and Bowen Theory: Review of “The Social Conquest of Earth” by E.O. Wilson. Family Systems 10(1):91-94.

2013. Commentary: “Use of the Term Solid Self in Bowen Theory.” Family Systems 10(1):65-66.

2013. “The Ultra-Modern Synthesis.”Family Systems 9(2):133-142.

2012. Review of “Stoner” by John Williams. Family Systems 9(1):89-94.

2006. Faculty Case Conference: “Efforts to Differentiate a Self in Response to a Cancer Diagnosis.” Family Systems 7(2):164-179.

2001. Faculty Case Conference: “Emotional Fusion in Relationships.” Family Systems 5(2):162-175.

1998. “Bowen Theory and Evolutionary Theory.” Family Systems 4(2):119-179.

1995. Faculty Case Conference: “Cancer and the Family Emotional System.” Family Systems 2(2):157-175.

1994. Review of “The Biology of the Naked Mole-Rat” by Paul W. Sherman, Jennifer U.M. Jarvis, and Richard D. Alexander, eds. Family Systems 1(1):92-96.

2016. “Extended Family Relationships: A Comparison of High and Low Symptom Families”. Family Systems 11(2):105-132.

1996. “The Study of Marriage and Bowen Theory.” Family Systems 3(1):37-51.

1997. “Individual Differences in Bottlenose Dolphin Infants.” Family Systems 4(1):34-48.

2016. Faculty Case Conference: “The Family Projection Process When the Father is the Primary Caregiver.” Family Systems 11(2):165-182.

2016. Review of “The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History” by Elizabeth Kolbert. Family Systems 11(2):183-189.

2013. Review of “The Social Conquest of Earth” by E.O. Wilson. Family Systems 10(1):87-90.

2012. Faculty Case Conference: “The Challenge of Neutrality in Defining Self with One’s Mother.” Family Systems 9(1):69-79.

2008. Faculty Case Conference: “The Affair As an Emotional Manager in Marriage.” Family Systems 8(1):77-89.

1996. Review of “Descartes’ Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain” by Antonio R. Damasio. Family Systems 3(1):87-96.

1998. Brief Report: “Instincts of Reproduction.” Family Systems 4(2):181-183.

1994. “Evolutionary Constraints on the Nonreproductive Sexual Behavior of Wild Apes.” Family Systems 1(2):142-163.

2011. Faculty Case Conference: “Fusion and Its Manifestations in Three Generations.” Family Systems 8(2):163-176.

2003. Faculty Case Conference: “Caring for Aging Parents.” Family Systems 6(2):171-181.

1996. Faculty Case Conference: “Symbiosis and Violence.” Family Systems 3(1):69-85.

1994. Faculty Case Conference: “Marital Conflict in Context.” Family Systems 1(2):164-177.

2016. “Family, Self, and the Intermix of Emotional and Intellectual Functioning.” Family Systems 12(1):29-52.

2013. Commentary: “Use of the Term Solid Self in Bowen Theory.” Family Systems 10(1):67-68.

2013. “Physiological Mediators in Family Emotional Process.” Family Systems 9(2):156-158.

2008. “The Multigenerational Transmission Process and the Neurobiology of Attachment and Stress Reactivity.” Family Systems 8(1):21-34.

2001. “The Family as a Source of Nongenomic Heritable Variation.” Family Systems 6(1):47-66.

1995. “The Family Unit and the Transmission of Individual Variation in Adaptiveness.” Family Systems 2(2):116-137.

1994. “Intergenerational Attachment and the Family.” Family Systems 1(2):114-126.

2013. “How Individuals Turn Out Differently in Terms of Emotional Reactivity.” Family Systems 9(2):171-173.

1998. Brief Report: “Stephen Emlen: The Biological Basis of the Family.” Family Systems 4(2):185-192.

1996.“Stress and Instability.” Family Systems 3(1):64-68.

1995. Review of “The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of the Learning Organization” by Peter M. Senge. Family Systems 2(2):176-186.

1995. Review of “Stress, the Aging Brain, and the Mechanisms of Neuron Death” by Robert M. Sapolsky. Family Systems 2(1):87-96.

1994. Review of “The Diversity of Life” by Edward O. Wilson. Family Systems 1(1):85-91.

2016. “Learning from the Nurses’ Notes for Bowen’s 1954-1959 NIMH Project: A Window into the Development of Theory.” Family Systems 11(2):133-164.

2008. “Survival, Fusion, and Functioning in Extreme Poverty.” Family Systems 8(1):35-49.

1999. Review of “The Health of Nations” by Leonard Sagan. Family Systems 5(1):81-90.

1995. “Relationships as Primary Regulators of Physiology.” Family Systems 2(2):101-115.

1999. “The Health Maintenance Organization as an Emotional System.” Family Systems 5(1):19-30.

1996. Brief Report: “The Construction of a Research Project on Menopause.” Family Systems 3(2):153-159.

1999. Brief Report: “Social Responsibility: A Foundation for Public Health.” Family Systems 5(1):56-69.

2016. Brief Report: “Marriage Preparation Programs and Bowen Family Systems Theory.” Family Systems 12(1):73-84.

2017. “Using Bowen Theory to Lead and Support Human Services.” Family Systems 13(1):37-44.

1994. “Family Constellation Theory Revisited Part 2.” Family Systems 2(1):3-16.

1994. “Family Constellation Theory Revisited Part 1.” Family Systems 1(2):101-113.

1996. Brief Report: “A View of Mediation from the Perspective of Bowen Family Systems Theory.” Family Systems 3(2):160-166.