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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

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

Now passed: The purpose of the conference is to demonstrate that the rapid growth of Systems Biology over the last several decades is extremely important for advancing Bowen family systems theory’s connection to the natural sciences.

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

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 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