The Bowen Center Faculty

Patricia A. Comella, JD

A member of the Bowen Center faculty since 1993, Patricia Comella’s work has centered on organizational and societal questions. Ms. Comella is currently working toward development of a beginning theory of society as an emotional system. That effort combines long-term study and application of Bowen theory with decades-long experience in use and regulation of advanced technologies for societal benefit, including regulation of the peaceful uses of atomic energy, practice of law, international standards setting and diplomatic negotiations.

Ms. Comella has served on the organizing committees for many of the Center’s spring conferences: the 1995 Conference on Organizations, the 1998 Conference on the Workplace as a Living System, five 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 is currently serving on the organizing committee for the sixth Variation Conference in 2013.

She has been a regular contributor to Family Systems: A Journal of Natural Systems Thinking in Psychiatry and the Sciences and currently serves as an editorial consultant for the Journal. She also was lead editor of The Emotional Side of Organizations, the published proceedings of the 1995 Conference on Organizations.

Mrs. Comella received her undergraduate degree in mathematics from Hofstra University and her law degree from Georgetown University.

Contact Information: pacomella@gmail.com