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The Bowen Center Faculty
Patricia A. Comella, JD
Patricia A. Comella became a faculty member of the Georgetown Family Center in 1993.
Her areas of interest include:
- applying Bowen theory to understanding nonfamily relationship
systems, particularly work systems
- fostering an ongoing, interdisciplinary dialogue with scientists and
researchers studying nonhuman behavior and functioning from a natural systems
perspective
- encouraging research into both human and nonhuman relationship systems
using Bowen theory as a guide
She was a co-organizer of the Family Center’s 1995 Conference on Organizations
and 1998 Conference on the Workplace as a Living System. She was a lead editor of The Emotional Side of Organizations, the published proceedings of the 1995 conference.
She served on the organizing committee of the 1996 and 2000 conferences on Relationship Systems and
Individual Variation in Functioning. Most recently, she chaired the planning committee for the 2009 Spring Conference entitled, "Societies, Families, and Planet Earth: Exploring the Connections." She serves as an editorial consultant and has been a regular contributor to Family Systems, A Journal of Natural Systems Thinking in Psychiatry and the Sciences.
Mrs. Comella received an undergraduate degree in mathematics from Hofstra University and a law degree from Georgetown University. She brings to her efforts years of interdisciplinary experience both in the United States and abroad in the public sector with NASA, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and the Department of State, from which she retired in 2007. In the private sector, she has done legal, regulatory and management consulting in the practice of nuclear energy law.
Contact Information: pacomella@aol.com
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