Murray Bowen: from the genogram to the self-diffe¬ren¬tiation

Journal title RIVISTA DI PSICOTERAPIA RELAZIONALE
Author/s Giulia Lupattelli
Publishing Year 2022 Issue 2021/54
Language Italian Pages 18 P. 60-77 File size 551 KB
DOI 10.3280/PR2021-054004
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Murray Bowen, an American psychiatrist, is one of the pioneers of American family and relationship therapy. His therapy is centered on understanding the mechanisms operating within the family system and on the process of differentiation of the self from the system, through the technique of detriangulation. Starting from the fundamental principles of Bowenian theory, through the literary case of the book "Jonathan Livingston Seagull" by Richard Bach, passing through the physiology of the tree system in the organization of its roots, the author will try to illustrate Murray’s family theory Bowen in the case of family psycho-therapy with only one family member. Beginning with the genogram technique, in order to reach the com-plete differentiation of the self, from the mass of the family ego, we will go through the phases of a systemic therapeutic process.

Keywords: Murray Bowen, self-differentiation, genogram, individual systemic therapy.

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Giulia Lupattelli, Murray Bowen: dal genogramma alla differenziazione del sé in "RIVISTA DI PSICOTERAPIA RELAZIONALE " 54/2021, pp 60-77, DOI: 10.3280/PR2021-054004