Think Tank Presentations

What does Bowen Theory Academy (BTA) do? BTA provides learning opportunities for people new to the theory as well as those interested in developing and extending Bowen Theory. The following presentations from BTA’s Think Tank and conferences are described below.

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Towards a Natural Systems Theory of Cancer

If chronic anxiety escalates in a relationship system, the system becomes dominated by less thoughtful and more reactive ways of interacting that are older in an evolutionary sense than the advanced complex behaviors of a well-functioning relationship system

Research Supporting a Link Between Chronic Anxiety and Cancer Progression

Bowen theory suggests that chronic anxiety—generated in the relationship system, but disproportionately absorbed by one family member—activates the sympathetic nervous system

How Does Bowen Theory Speak to Societal Regression

Arguably, societal regression in America is particularly evident in heightened levels of a polarized public, and corresponding polarity in our elected officials. The case can be made that this polarity has steadily increased since 9/11/2001

The Family Projection Process

A certain amount of anxious focus on a child occurs in all families. It is in the nature of the human offspring to need quite a lot of care for quite a long time. The degree of intensity of the attachment between mother and child, within the mother-father-child triangle, is key to the degree to which the child develops a mature self

The Interface Between the Institute of Religion and Bowen Theory

The Neolithic revolution represents a first tipping point in which our species would begin to experience documented levels of chronic stress that translated into levels of unresolved anxiety and/or societal regression that could translate into physical illness and/or emotional distress

Toward an Understanding of the Interface between Bowen theory and Religious Practice: Part 1

In 1980, when Murray Bowen began to introduce a ninth concept at the fall symposium, a number of clergy, reportedly, became “over-excited” that Dr. Bowen was now drawing a clear connection between Family Systems Theory and the realm of “spirituality”