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In this opening clip of the conference, Dr. Bowen describes the process of orientation that went into his initial research at NIH. He outlines the background knowledge that led him to a different orientation about the human being, which included drawing on the fields of biology, biochemistry, psychology, sociology, psychoanalysis, genetics, immunology, and all the social sciences. Learning about self was cardinal to his approach when he went into family research, and as a result, he began to track down his own personal genealogy.