… "The world of family therapy has long awaited Murray Bowen's book. Heretofore, his writings
have appeared in scattered journals and books. Now, for the first time, the developments of …

Presented here is a family theory of emotional illness and its component system of family
psychotherapy, which is one of several different theoretical approaches to the family, and one …

There are striking discrepancies between theory and practice in psychotherapy. The
therapist's theoretical assumptions about the nature and origin of emotional illness serve as a …

The schizophrenic psychosis of the patient is, in the author's opinion, a symptom manifestation
of an active process that involves the entire family. This orientation has evolved during the …

Outlines the principles of family systems theory, in which alcoholism is conceptualized as a
symptom of the larger family or social unit. Ways in which family or systems theory can be …

In Chapter 1, the cornerstone of this book is a reprint of Murray Bowen’s chapter, “Family
Reaction to Death.” Bowen died in 1990. In 1978 he wrote the following summary of this chapter…

The concepts of Murray Bowen, one of the founders of family therapy and the originator of
family systems theory, are brought together here in an integrative fashion. Michael Kerr (who …

This paper describes a method of family psychotherapy developed as part of a family
research project. The research was based on the theoretical premise" the family as the unit of …

The specific method of family psychotherapy in the treatment of schizophrenia which will be
described here was developed as an integral part of a theoretical premise about the nature …

… This book is a collection of some of Murray Bowen MD’s important unpublished and published
papers written during the NIMH Family Study Project from 1954 to 1959. On October 9, …