Hillbilly Elegy: Bowen Theory in Everyday Life

May 18, 2017

Hillbilly Elegy: Bowen Theory in Everyday Life

Anne McKnight, MSW, EdD

Director of the Bowen Center for the Study of the Family

Washington, DC

Dr. McKnight will discuss J. D. Vance’s best-selling book in which he describes his life growing up in the Rust Bowl with his addicted mother and her ever-changing partners. His grandmother played a pivotal role in providing a connection out of the family chaos and instability. He went into the Marines, and then onto the Ohio State University and Yale Law School. The story does not end there. He still had work to do on differentiation.

Video Length: 49:53

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