Bowen Concepts A
This concept is often a result of unresolved emotional attachment
What is fusion
This Bowenian concept is defined as the ability to regulate emotional reactivity, to think clearly under stress and to achieve an autonomous self within one's family relationships while staying connected.
What is differentiation of the self
This is the preferred position for triangles driven by intense anxiety
What is the outside(r) position
This is where we get our basic level of differentiation
What is parents
Bowen theory is mostly concerned with this order of change
The loss of a job leading to extra parental focus on a child, which results in more fusion with parents and lower differentiation of child, is an example of this concept.
What is family projection process
These are the three roles that an individual can potentially play in a triangle.
What are anxiety generator, anxiety amplifier, and anxiety dampener
These are considered the building blocks of emotional systems.
What are triangles
Genograms utilize these two major categorical concepts to map out the family system.
What are structure and function.
Bowen explored family relationships and constructs while working with these type of patients
What are schizophrenic patients
Bowen believes this concept is probably the most important technique in family systems therapy.
What is detriangling.
This is a concept that describes the automatic thoughts and sensitivities developed over time in relational systems, which has also been called "emotional programming" by Kerr.
What is the multigenerational transmission process
This is a type of triangle when there is one dyadic relationship that is high in conflict and two dyadic relationships that are stable
What is an unstable triangle
The Nuclear Family Emotional System explains how dysfunctional symptoms are manifested in these three categories.
What are couple conflict/marital discord, symptoms in a spouse, and symptoms in a child
According to Toman's theory, these are the three major determinants of personality characteristics.
What are order of one's birth (sibling position in FoO), birth order of one's parents, the mix of genders among siblings
These are two important patterns explained within the symptoms in a spouse category
What are the dominant-submission and overfunctioning-underfunctioning patterns
The transgender male has this symbol represented in the traditional genogram.
What is a circle inside a square.
This concept in relationships is described when one partner may need to bear the symptom (anxiety) while the other partner appears to gain a self from the relationship
What is fusion
These triangle types are when anxiety is unable to be contained in one triangle and overflows into another triangle.
What are interlocking triangles.
This cybernetics concept is most interested in the “purpose” of the symptom, behavior, or pattern that is being served within the system
What is the teleological principle
He described cybernetics as the study of control and communications in the animal and the machine.
Who is Norbert Wiener
According to Toman's sibling position theory, this sibling position is the best match for a mate of the oldest brother of brothers.
What is the youngest sister of brother(s)
This cybernetics concept is explained as such: because the whole is greater than the sum of its parts, simply adding up individual parts does not create the whole.
Bowen received his MD from this university (think about where he was born)
What is the University of Tennessee Medical School
Bowen describes how the family unit creates this specific concept that regulates the emotional functioning of each member in the family.
What is the emotional field