Bowen Family Therapy
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• The past is currently influencing the present
• Change can happen—individuals can move along in the process of differentiation
• Differentiation: ability to maintain self in the face of high anxiety (remain autonomous in a highly emotional situation)
• Differentiation is internal and relational—they are isomorphic
• Anxiety is the driving force inhibiting change (it needs to be reduced to facilitate change)
• High intimacy and high autonomy with a balance is ideal
• Emotions are a physiological process—there is a difference between emotions and feelings; feelings are the thoughts that name and mediate emotions, give them meaning
• Symptoms are indicators of stress, anxiety
• Anyone can become symptomatic with enough stress; more differentiated people will be able to withstand more stress and, when they do become symptomatic, recover more quickly
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