Welcome to the Murray Bowen archive. Learn about Murray Bowen, MD, a pioneer in the Family Therapy movement and author of the Bowen Theory. The Bowen Theory is a natural systems view of the human family based in evolution and framed by eight concepts that describe how the family functions as a system. The concepts in the Bowen Theory can be observed in living systems all up and down the phyla.
Here you will read about Dr. Bowen’s early life, follow a timeline describing his thinking and theory development, learn about the extensive collection of his works in paper, videotape and audiotape form housed at the National Library of Medicine and in Williamsburg, VA, and read and listen to what others have gained from their associations with Dr. Bowen.
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