Origin
A psychoanalytically trained psychiatrist, that studied schizophrenia via mothers and children while at the Menninger clinic from 1946-1954
What is Murray Bowen?
To help clients achieve higher level of self-differentiation
What is the objective of therapy?
Emotional detachment or the ability to maintain objectivity by separating affect from condition.
What is differentiation of self?
Birth order within the nuclear family
What is sibling position?
A diagram of the family’s genealogy typically depicting three generations
What is genogram ?
Bowen noticed oscillating patterning of closeness and distance, a process called
What is Mother-Child Symbiosis?
All Individuals display symptoms under suffocate levels of situational or chronic stress
What is how do problems Arise?
The inability to separate emotions from cognition; this is the opposite end of the continuum for emotional detachment
What is Emotional Fusion?
The process by which spiraling levels of emotion illness transmit across successive generations through the child dysfunction strategy
What is Family projection process?
Client establish contact with their family of origin to learn how members maintain emotional fusion; introduced as clients show improved self- differentiation
What is Going Home Task?
Bowen served as the first director of the family division
What is National Institute of Mental Health?
Comes from motivated clients who achieve insight
What produces change?
A three-member subsystem representing the smallest stable unit within the family
What is triangle?
Creates anxiety between spouses
What is Emotional Fusion?
Requests or statements that emphasize the speaker’s personal responsibility for attitudes, beliefs, or affect
What is I-position?
Overarching perspective that promotes awareness of cultural biases across all theories
What is culturally prescribed gender roles?
The therapist coach or consults with the clients on ways to enhance selff-differentiation. They serve in a neutral role as observer or researcher of the family process, remaining calm and objective in-session. This behavior requires a high level of self-differentiation, which requires the therapist to be
What is goal directed and autonomous?
The four relationship strategies used by spouses to handle anxiety; normative if constrained to transitory stressors
What is Nuclear family emotional process?
Ignore one another or avoid discussing conflictual topics
What is emotional distance?
Significant milestones that unleash related changes, possible replication across generations
What is revealing nodal events?
Bowen worked in the Department of Psychiatry at Georgetown University, he became involved in training of psychiatrist and other mental health professionals until the year of his death
What is 1990?
Improvement in self- differentiation occur once the marital dyad stabilizes; therapist achieve stability by regulating the amount of interaction between the dyad and focusing on cognitive over affective functioning
What is how does change occur?
Extreme forms of distancing between members in emotionally fused families; undifferentiated members with frae physically or emotionally to cope with anxiety inherent in the defective system
What is Emotional Cutoff?
Level of self-differentiation is lower than that of the parents, Marriage will be to someone of comparable dysfunction, and the child dysfunction strategy will likely surface in the new family.
What is the triangulated child experiencing problems in adulthood?
Deemphasizes techniques
What is Bowenian theory?