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Spring Conference
Annual Symposium
Clinical Conferences
Thursday Lectures
Programs Outside the Center
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Clinical Conference
May 15, 2009
Cutoff in Family and in Life
Roberta Gilbert, MD
Cutoff is perhaps one of the most common and troublesome patterns in life. It has insidious aspects that are useful to think about. Cutoff begins in the family and goes from there to embrace many other relationships. The descriptions of cutoff by Dr. Bowen will be explored, and clinical interviews will show cutoff plays out in people's lives.
When
9:30 AM - 3:30 PM
Where
Metropolitan Memorial United Methodist Church
3401 Nebraska Avenue, NW, Washington, DC
Thursday Professional Lecture
May 14, 2009
The Case of John Forbes Nash, Jr:
System-Driven or Pathology-Driven?
Michael E. Kerr, MD
When
7:30 PM
Where
Georgetown Family Center
Dr. John Nash was psychotic for about thirty years. He eventually recovered without hospitalizations, psychotherapy, or medications. His case highlights the lack of usefulness of the label, “schizophrenia.” If brain pathology caused his symptoms of schizophrenia, where did the pathology go? Bowen theory’s concepts of “self,” anxiety-driven disturbances in relationship systems, and anxiety-binding mechanisms offer a refreshing look at the case of Dr. Nash. Drawing from several sources, particularly from the book A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar, this presentation will describe how Bowen theory would explain John Nash’s descent into and recovery from chronic psychosis.
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