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

Is Differentiation All You Need?

Years ago, I heard from somebody that Murray Bowen had been asked, “What is the single best indicator of level of differentiation?” And that he answered, “occupational attainment”, or “educational attainment”

Bowen Theory and the Challenge of Cultural Polarization

What is infected, fixated, truncated is not individuals, but systems that live within the variable of chronic anxiety. The level of chronic anxiety is not static, though the presence of chronic anxiety remains the governing force in all systems

Brief Revisiting of TOFT and its Importance To Bowen Theory

Bowen theory is a natural systems theory that leads the therapist to ask a family different kinds of questions than those guided by individual psychodynamic theories.

Some Thoughts About Bowen Theory and the Bowen Network

Bowen Theory was developed in a clinical environment, a primary goal being effective treatment of schizophrenia and it developed into a theory of human behavior over the decades

Patterns of Interaction in Living Systems

For the last 40 years, Eve Marder’s lab at Brandeis University has studied one small system of 5 neurons from the 30 neuron stomatogastric ganglion in the stomach of crustaceans

Schizophrenia and Family Reaction to Grandparent Death

Froma Walsh in 1978 discovered some rather remarkable facts about schizophrenia. 41% of schizophrenics had a grandparent die within two years of their birth, over four times more than would have been expected in the general population.