Family Matters: Dr. Murray Bowen's Original Family Study Project

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Have you ever gone through an old box of photographs and enjoy the feeling of the peices of your past coming together in a new way? My guest, Dr. Jack Buttler did exactly that; but he did not go through a box of old pictures. Instead he meticulously sorted through the hand-written notes of Dr. Murray Bowen about his seminal research at the National Mental Health Institute. The research project which involved families with a member with schizophrenia was central to the birth of the family psychotherapy movement. Dr. Bowen was a careful researcher. He systematically recorded his keen observations and his thoughts. Dr. Buttler has organized them into a recently published book: The Origins of Family Psychotherapy: The NIMH Family Study Project. Dr. Buttler is a social worker, marriage and family therapists. He has published extensively about Bowen theory and will take us in a journey of re-discovering the process from a set of observations to the development of a whole new theory on human functioning.