One day an email arrived at The Murray Bowen Archives Project, TMBAP, http://www.murraybowenarchives.org asking if someone would please write an article for the American Association for Marriage and Family therapy magazine, AAMFT. https://www.aamft.org/iMIS15/AAMFT/Content/FTM/Family_Therapy_Magazine.aspx The request …
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The Woman’s March: Reflections on observing self in a social system
The following blog was written for Navigating Systems D.C. https://www.navigatingsystemsdc.com/about Reflections on Seeing the Influence of the Emotional System In an era of societal polarization, …
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What Does it Take to Observe Self in Your Own Family?
Do you find yourself wondering what makes you avoid family relationships? Do you wonder, what is going on, why is so and so upset or picking fight or will not return phone calls, etc.? What …
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Don Lorenzo Servije An Interview
Don Lorinzo died today, February 3, 2017, at 98 years of age. Nine years ago I had the great honor of interviewing Don Lorenzo, who was a giant of a man, and founder of the world wide …
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Happy Birthday Dr. Bowen would have been 104 1/31/1913-0/1990
I first met Dr. Bowen at a conference in 1976. He accepted me into the Post graduate Training Program and I became a kind of an apprentice. In 1980 he hired me to be the …
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Happy New Year – 2017
To start out this New Year I wanted to give special thanks and appreciation to all those who visit my site and to the Murray Bowen Archives Project new website. http://murraybowenarchives.org. This web site will give …
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Social Copying from Wasps to Humans
Sometimes I am just so lucky to be in the right place at the right time. I had the opportunity to join my granddaughter, Isabelle, for a week. She was doing an internship at the …
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Training Animals is Simple but My Marriage/Family is a Mess
A New York Times article, “No Sound, No Fury, No Marriage” by Laura Pritchett appears just as I am reading Reaching the Animal Mind by Karen Pryor. What does the founder of “clicker” …
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Triangles in Social Groups and Wu-Wei
Would it be useful to see how dominance behavior emerges in a triangle? It is easy to see the two person social system, as above, and far more challenging to see the family as a unit where …
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101 Ways to 101 Ways to Lead While Escaping Being Focused On, or The Top Ten Reasons to be a Scapegoat
On the last day of 2015 I had the great honor and pleasure of meeting and interviewing Aranka Siegal, a survivor of the holocaust. She wrote the book, Upon the Head of the Goat. She is …
