Southern California Education and Training in Bowen Family Systems Theory

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Additional Suggested Readings

  • Altmann, Jeanne. Baboon Mothers and Infants. Cambridge, MA:Harvard University Press, 1981.
  • Bonner, John. Cells and Societies. Princeton:Princeton University Press, 1955. Out of print.
  • ______. The Evolution of Complexity by Means of Natural Selection. Princeton:PrincetonUniversity Press, 1988.
  • ______. The Evolution of Culture in Animals. Princeton:Princeton University Press, 1980.
  • ______. First Signals:The Evolution of Multicellular Development. Princeton:Princeton University Press, 2001.
  • ______. The Ideas of Biology. Mineola, NY:Dover Publications, 2002.
  • ______. Lives of a Biologist: Adventures in a Century of Extraordinary Science. Cambridge, MA:Harvard University Press, 2002.Autobiography.
  • Buss, Leo W. The Evolution of Individuality. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987.Out of print.
  • Calhoun, John B. Environment and Population:Problems of Adaptation. New York:Praeger Publishers, 1983.
  • Damasio, Antonio R. Descartes’ Error:Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain. New York, Avon Books, 1994.
  • Darwin, Charles. The Origin of the Species. New York:Avenel Books, 1979.
  • De Waal, Frans. Chimpanzee Politics:Power and Sex among Apes. Baltimore:Johns Hopkins Paperbacks, 1989.
  • ______. Peacemaking among Primates. Cambridge:Harvard University Press, 1989.
  • Friedman, Edwin H. Generation to Generation:Family Process in Church and Synagogue. New York:The Guilford Press, 1985.
  • Georgetown Family Center. Bowen:Theory and Practice. Feature articles that appeared in The Family Center Report, which was published biannually from 1979-1996.
  • ______. The Emotional Side of Organizations:Applications of Bowen Theory. Proceedings from the April 22-23, 1995, conference on organizations.
  • ______. Family Systems:A Journal of Natural Systems Thinking in Psychiatry and the Sciences. Published biannually.First issued June 1994.
  • Gilbert, Roberta M. Connecting with Our Children:Guiding Principles for Parents in a Troubled World. New York:John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1999.
  • Gilbert, Roberta M.D. Extraordinary Relationships: A New Way of Thinking about Human Interactions, John Wiley & Sons, 1992.
  • Henry, J. P., and P. M. Stephens. Stress, Health, and the Social Environment. New York:Springer-Verlag, 1977.
  • Hobson, J. Allan. The Chemistry of Conscious States:Toward a Unified Model of the Brain and Mind. Boston:Back Bay Books, Little, Brown and Company, 1994.
  • Hofer, Myron A. The Roots of Human Behavior. New York:W. H. Freeman and Company, 1981.
  • LeDoux, Joseph. The Emotional Brain:The Mysterious Underpinnings of Emotional Life. New York:Touchstone Books, 1998.Paperback reprint edition.
  • ______. Synaptic Self:How Our Brains Become Who We Are. New York:Viking, 2002.
  • McLean, Paul. The Triune Brain in Evolution. New York:Plenum Press, 1989.
  • Sagan, Leonard. The Health of the Nation. New York:Basic Books, 1987.
  • Sagar, Ruth Riley, and Kathleen Klaus Wiseman, eds. Understanding Organizations:Applications of Bowen Family Systems Theory. Washington, D.C.:Georgetown Family Center, 1982.
  • Sapolsky, Robert M. Stress, the Aging Brain, and the Mechanisms of Neuron Death. New York:W. H. Freeman and Company, 1992.
  • ______. Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers:A Guide to Stress, Stress-Related Diseases, and Coping. New York:W. H. Freeman and Company, 1994.
  • Titelman, Peter, ed. Clinical Applications of Bowen Family Systems Theory. Binghamtom, NY:The Haworth Press, 1998.
  • ______. Emotional Cutoff: Bowen Family Systems Theory Perspectives. Binghamton, NY: The Haworth Press, 2003.
  • Toman, Walter. Family Constellation:Its Effects on Personality and Social Behavior, 4th edition. New York:Springer, 1992. Paperback edition published by Jason Aronson (New York), 1994.
  • Trivers, Robert L. Natural Selection and Social Theory:Selected Papers of Robert L. Trivers. Evolution and Cognition Series. New York:Oxford University Press, 2002.
  • ______. Social Evolution. Menlo Park, CA:The Benjamin/Cummings Publishing Company, Inc., 1985.
  • Weiner, Jonathan. The Beak of the Finch:A Story of Evolution in Our Time. New York:Knopf, 1994.
  • Wilson, David Sloan. Darwin's Cathedral: Evolution, Religion, and the Nature of Society. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002.
  • Wilson, Edward O. Sociobiology:The New Synthesis. Cambridge, MA:The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1975.
  • ______. Sociobiology: The New Synthesis. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard niversity Press, 1975.

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