Family and Self

Robert J. Noone is faculty at the Center for Family Consultation and the Bowen Center for the Study of the Family.

Chapter 1: Family and Adaptive Capacity Chapter 2: Toward Emotional Objectivity Chapter 3: The Brain and Self-Regulation Chapter 4: The Family as an Adaptive System Chapter 5: An Evolutionary Perspective on the Family and the Brain Chapter 6: The Impact of Stress on the Family and Adaptive Capacity Chapter 7: Family and the Multigenerational Process Chapter 8: Emotional Cutoff and the Establishment of a Self in Each Generation Chapter 9: A Systems Theory of the Family Chapter 10: Family as a Pathway toward Enhanced Adaptive Capacity

This book is for the helping professionals and family members who have ever questioned the efficacy of using an individualistic paradigm to solve life's problems. Noone tackles important myths about Bowen Theory and situates the human family as a self-regulating system. He pulls the reader out of cause-and-effect thinking and into a Bowen Family Systems Theory (BFST) world that is grounded in natural systems, evolutionary theory, and includes the biological basis of development. This book is a light at the end of the tunnel for new and seasoned helping professionals. -- Carrie Elizabeth Collier, The Bowen Center for the Study of the Family