Our Work

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.

Select a Category

Kansas City Webcast Series

2024-2025 Bowen Theory Academy Recorded Webcast Series.These are monthly, 90-minute previously recorded webcasts featuring Michael Kerr, MD, or Kathleen Kerr, MSN, CNS of the Bowen Theory Academy.

Relationships, Cancer, and Death as a Product of the Family Emotional Process

In this video Ms. Kathleen Kerr, MSN, MA, CNS, explains how symptoms occur as an outcome of a family emotional process

The Neuroendocrine Immune System and the Stress Response

Dr. Michael Lumpkin presents on the neuroendocrine system and the stress response system in this video

Cancer, Systems Biology, and Bowen Family Systems Theory

Dr. Michael Kerr discusses cancer from a systems perspective. He addresses the context in which cancer develops as influencing the development of a cancer

The Neuroscience of Differentiation of Self

This lecture is of interest to those seeking information about neuroscience and differentiation of self, chronic anxiety, and Bowen theory, and the neuroscience of differentiation of self.

Anxiety and Stress – Impact on Schizophrenia Symptoms – A Case Study of John Nash, PhD

The presentation describes the Bowen theory concepts of emotional system functioning driven by high chronic anxiety permitted by Nash having low levels of low levels of basic differentiation of self.