Reading Resources

• Bertolaso, Marta. (2016). Philosophy of Cancer.  Springer Science & Business Media Dordrecht. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-94-024-0865-2
• Bowen, Murray, M.D. (1978). Family Therapy in Clinical Practice. Jason Aronson, Inc., New York. https://www.amazon.com/Family-Therapy-Clinical-Practice-Murray/dp/1568210116
• Butler, Jack (Ed.) and Bowen, Murray (2013). The Origins of Family Psychotherapy: The NIMH Family Study Project.  Jason Aronson, Lanham, MD. https://www.amazon.com/s?k=the+origins+of+family+psychotherapy
• R. Sagar, (Ed.). Bowen Theory and Practice: Featured articles from The Family Center Report (1979-1996). (July, 1997). Bowen Center for the Study of the Family/Georgetown Family Center.  https://www.thebowencenter.org/publications-products/bowen-theory-and-practice
• Family Systems: A Journal of Natural System Thinking in Psychiatry and the Sciences.  (1994-present).  Bowen Center for the Study of the Family/Georgetown Family Center,  https://www.thebowencenter.org/publications
• Gilbert, Roberta M.D. (1992). Extraordinary Relationships: A New Way of Thinking about Human Interactions. John Wiley & Sons. https://www.amazon.com/Extraordinary-Relationships-Thinking-About-Interactions/dp/0470581093
• Jacobs, Carolyn, Psy.D. (2004).  The blank slate: The modern denial of human nature.  Book Review in: Family Systems: A Journal of Natural Systems Thinking in Psychiatry and the Sciences. (7)1, 83-90. https://thebowencenter.gumroad.com/l/zwKfEm
• Jacobs, Carolyn, Psy.D.  (2004). Supervision in Bowen theory, thought and therapy. The Therapist.  July/August, 60-62. https://www.camft.org/Resources/Supervisors Corner
• Jurkowski, Joan, MS. (2004).  Heroin Addicts, Family and Recovery: A Pilot Study.  Family Systems.  7(1), 45-66. https://www.thebowencenter.org/journal/issue-71
• Kerr, K B. (2021). Applying Bowen Theory to Psychiatric Assessment and Disposition in the ED.  Journal of the Psychiatric Nurses Association. (29),1-12.  https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1078390320987636
• Kerr, K B. (2004). A Methodological Experiment with a Quasi Mother Child Relationship. Family Systems. (7), 67-82. https://www.thebowencenter.org/journal/issue-71
• Kerr, K B. (2001). Multiple Family Therapy.  Family Systems. (6), 77-96. https://www.thebowencenter.org/journal/issue-61
• Kerr, K B. (1999). The Projection Process in Health Care Systems.  Family Systems.  (5), 71-80. https://www.thebowencenter.org/journal/issue-51
• Kerr, K B. (1997). The Press of Population.  In R. R. Sagar, Ed, Bowen Theory and Practice.  Georgetown Family Center, Washington, DC, 41-50. https://www.thebowencenter.org/publications-products/bowen-theory-and-practice
• Kerr, K B.  (1994). Abuse as a Symptom of the Family System.  Family Systems.  (1), 67-80. https://www.thebowencenter.org/journal/issue-1-1
• Kerr, K B. (1982). An Overview of Bowen Theory and Organizations.  In R. R. Sagar and K. K. Wiseman (Eds.), Understanding Organizations: Application of Family Systems Theory. Georgetown Family Center, Washington, DC, 1-8. https://www.thebowencenter.org/publications-products/understanding-organizations
• Kerr, Michael E.  (2019).  Bowen Theory’s Secrets: Revealing the Hidden Life of Families.  W.W. Norton, New York, N.Y. https://www.amazon.com/Bowen-Theorys-Secrets-Revealing-Families/dp/0393708128
• Kerr, MD, M. (2015) Essays from the Editor [Review of Essays from the Editor]. Family Systems A Journal of Natural Systems Thinking in Psychiatry and the Sciences. https://www.thebowencenter.org/publications, 1.1-10.1(ISBN 0-9658540-7-8), 1–89
• Kerr, Michael, M.D. (2003). One family’s story: A primer on Bowen theory.  Washington D.C.  Bowen Center for the Study of the Family. https://www.thebowencenter.org/publications
• Kerr, M. (1992).  Physical Illness and the Family Emotional System: Psoriasis as a Model. Behavioral Medicine. 18: 101-113. https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/vbmd20/18/3?nav=tocList
• Kerr, M.  (1989). Darwin to Freud to Bowen: Toward a Natural Systems of Human Behavior.   Georgetown Magazine. 21:16-19, 44-45. https://thebowencenter.gumroad.com/l/gFDYD
• Kerr, Michael, M.D. & Bowen, Murray, M.D. (1988). Family Evaluation: An Approach Based on Bowen Theory. W.W. Norton & Co., New York.  https://www.amazon.com/Family-Evaluation-Michael-Kerr/dp/0393700569
• Kerr, M. (1988). Chronic Anxiety and Defining a Self.  The Atlantic Monthly.  (262), 35-58. https://thebowencenter.gumroad.com/l/HOewY
• Noone, Robert J. (2021).  Family and Self:  Bowen Theory and the Shaping of Adaptive Capacity. Lexington Books, Lanham, MD. https://www.amazon.com/Family-Self-Shaping-Adaptive-Capacity/dp/1793628149
• Noone, Robert and Papero, Daniel V. (Eds.) (2015). The Family Emotional System: An Integrative Concept for Theory, Science, and Practice. Lexington Books, Lanham, MD. https://www.amazon.com/Family-Emotional-System-Integrative-Practice/dp/0739198955
• Papero, Daniel Ph.D. (1990).  Bowen Family Systems Theory.  Allyn & Bacon, Boston. https://www.amazon.com/Family-Systems-Theory-Daniel-Papero/dp/0205125190
• Rakow, Catherine M.  (2023). Making Sense of Human Life: Murray Bowen’s Determined Effort Toward Family Systems Theory.  Routledge, New York, N.Y. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.4324/9781003027287/making-sense-human-life-catherine-rakow
• Toman, Walter. (1991).  Family Constellation: Its Effects on Personality and Social Behavior. Springer Publishing Company, Inc., New York, N.Y. 4^th ed. https://www.amazon.com/Family-Constellation-Effects-Personality-Behavior/dp/0826104967
• de Waal, Frans. (2007).  Chimpanzee Politics:  Power and Sex Among Apes. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD. https://www.amazon.com/Chimpanzee-Politics-Power-among-Apes/dp/0801886562