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.

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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.

Construction Theory of Emotion and BFST

Bowen family systems theory is a theoretical view of relationship process and symptom development. It contains concepts that were developed independently of neuroscience as the current research was not available.

A Bowen Theorist in Public Administration

A public service administrator is embedded in societal emotional process, and Bowen theory is about trying to enhance regulation of emotional process based on an understanding of natural systems. This presents difficulty. If it has been addressed in the literature, I’ve missed reading it

A Little More Systems Rationality: Bayesian Reasoning

Bayesian reasoning assigns probabilities of certainty/uncertainty to hypotheses about various parts of reality. Then it uses any additional new information to update the probabilities of these hypotheses

Brief Book Review “How to Tame a Fox,” Lee Alan Dugatkin & Lyudmila Trut

Two reasons for my interest: Desire to anchor the individuality-togetherness concept in evolution, and develop a systems theory of the individual. The brain beyond the long-term research this book describes was Russian geneticist Dimitri Belyaev. Lyudmila Trut has been involved since the beginning.