Clinical Conference

February 6, 2009
Individual Differences in Working on Differentiation of Self

Anne S. McKnight, LCSW, EdD

People come to therapy from many different life experiences, family systems, and emotional programming. Bowen theory helps define steps for moving toward a better level of differentiation. The therapist faces trying to understand the unique challenges represented in the family system and the emotional process of each clinical situation. This day will examine the way Bowen theory addresses the individual differences present in clinical families.

9:30-3:30
Metropolitan Memorial United Methodist Church
3401 Nebraska Avenue, NW, Washington, DC

Thursday Professional Lecture

February 5, 2009
Bowen Family History
as Reported by Murray Bowen, MD

Judith M. Bowen, MD

7:30 PM
Georgetown Family Center

This presentation is about Murray Bowen’s carefully detailed research of the Bowen family as he recorded and reported it in letters to his family of origin. The details he observed informed his thinking about the multigenerational family emotional process. Bowen’s “data collection” included the facts of who, what, when, where, and how as best he could learn them.