Family Matters: A Systems View of Symptoms and How It Can Help

More often than not, when we think about relationship we consider elements such as behaviors, feelings and psychology. In contrast when we think about health and reproduction we say: “that is totally different. That is physical”. Our guest today, Mrs. Victoria Harrison, has been studying the ways in which everything we think, feel, do and the way we interact with each other involve both brain and body reactions. From her research based on Systems Theory, she has concluded that individuals give and get anxious reactions from each other, and that these reactions are part of symptoms and also part of satiability. But not only that, Mrs. Harrison has delineated ways in which anybody: you, me, can use this information to improve one´s functioning.

Victoria Harrison is one of the senior faculty at The Bowen Center. She commutes to DC from Houston, TX where she has a clinical practice in family systems psychotherapy and uses neurofeedback and biofeedback for research and self-regulation. She received the Caskie Research Award for looking at the impact of anxious reactions in the family on symptoms that impact health and reproduction. She has connected some of the dots between relationships, how our brains and bodies react to anxiety, and symptoms like infertility, endometriosis, migraines, and more. Individuals and family members can use this perspective to play their part in increased health and even fertility.