Part 1: Theoretical Considerations
A Brief Summary of Bowen Family Systems Theory
Patricia A. Comella, JD
The Extension of Bowen Theory to Nonfamily Groups
Michael E. Kerr, MD
Rethinking the Consultant’s Role
Joyce Bader, MS
Part 2. The Organization as an Emotional System
Life at Work: The View from the Bleachers
Kathleen K. Wiseman, MBA
The Emotional Side of Re-Engineered and Re-Invented Workplaces
Patricia A. Comella, JD
Anxiety and Organizations
Daniel V. Papero, PhD
Part 3. Human Social Systems
Bowen Theory: Potential Implications for the Field of Corrections
Ann Bunting, PhD
Consulting to Russian-American Joint Ventures
Katharine G. Baker, DSW
Violence in the Workplace: A Family Systems Perspective
Walter H. Smith, Jr., PhD
Part 4. Defining A Self Within Social Systems
Leadership from the Viewpoint of Bowen Theory
Paulina McCullough, MSW
Consultant as Sponge: An Evolutionary Journey
Judith S. Ball, MS Ed.
Teaching Bowen Family Systems Theory
Selden Dunbar Illick, LCSW
A Graduate Nursing Course Using Bowen Theory
Gail Hilbert, DNSC
Part 5. Case Studies
Cooperation, Leaders, and Anxiety
Andrea Maloney-Schara, LCSWA
The Influence of Anxiety within a Business
Kent E. Webb, LCSW
Bowen Family Systems Theory as a Framework for Consultants
Leslie Ann Fox, MA, RRA
The School as an Emotional System
Roger Dillow, MA, MSW
Part 6. Practitioners
“I” Openings: Bowen Theory as a Framework to Sustain Planned Change
Peter F. Norlin, PhD
Bringing Bowen Theory to the Organization Behavior Classroom
Morley Segal, PhD
Differentiation and Triangles in Coaching Executives
Richard D. Olson, PhD
Diversity and Differentiation
Norman Leigh Jones, MA
Organizational Dynamics and the Clergy
V. Sue Zabel, PhD
The Contemporary Organization
Robert Cahill, MBA
Part 7. Nonhuman Social Systems
Leadership in Nonhuman Social Systems: The Chimpanzees of Gombe
Kathleen B. Kerr, MSN, MA
Lessons from Nature on Leadership
Stephanie J. Ferrera, MSW
A Natural Systems View of Hierarchy
Roberta M. Gilbert, MD
