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The Family Emotional System: An Integrative Concept for Theory, Science, and Practice presents an ongoing dialogue among scientists, family investigators, and clinicians related to a natural systems view of the family and human behavior that has been occurring over several decades.
List of contents
Part I Bowen Theory and the Family Emotional System
Chapter 1 Toward a Science of Human Behavior
Robert J. Noone and Daniel V. Papero
Chapter 2 The Family Emotional System
Daniel V. Papero
Chapter 3 Multigenerational Family Emotional Process as a Source of Individual Differences in Adaptiveness
Robert J. Noone
Chapter 4 The Predictability of the Family Emotional System
Randall T. Frost
Chapter 5 The Family as an Emotional Unit Concept: Origins and Early History
John F. Butler
Part IIScientific Contributions to an Emotional Systems Perspective
Chapter 6 Epigenetic Effects of Parental Care within and across Generations
Frances A. Champagne and James P. Curley
Chapter 7 Early Context-Dependent Epigenetic Modifications and the Shaping of Brain and Behavior
David Crews and Robert J. Noone
Chapter 8Nonhuman Primate Models of Family Systems
Charles T. Snowdon
Chapter 9 The Instinctual Foundations of Infant Minds: How Primary Affects Guide the Construction of Their Higher Cognitive Proclivities and Abilities
Jaak Panksepp & Marina Farinelli
Chapter 10 Evolution of Psychological Mechanisms for Human Family Relationship
Mark V. Flinn
Chapter 11 The Family System of a Social Wasp
Raghavendra Gadagkar
Chapter 12 Ants and Families
LeAnn S. Howard and Deborah M. Gordon
Part IIIExamples of the Influence of a Family Emotional Systems Perspective on Research and Practice
Chapter 13 Emotional Systems and the Regulation of Reproduction with Ovulation as an Illustration
Victoria Harrison
Chapter 14 Mating and Parental Care: The Influence of Gender on the Primary Triangle Margaret G. Donley
Chapter 15 Understanding Autonomic Physiology and Relationship Processes in High-Risk Families
Elizabeth Skowron
About the Contributors
About the author
Robert J. Noone is co-founder of and faculty at the Center for Family Consultation in Evanston, Illinois where he also maintains a psychotherapy practice.
Daniel V. Papero is senior faculty member at the Bowen Center for the Study of the Family in Washington, DC.
Summary
The Family Emotional System: An Integrative Concept for Theory, Science, and Practice presents an ongoing dialogue among scientists, family investigators, and clinicians related to a natural systems view of the family and human behavior that has been occurring over several decades.
