Journal 18.1- Darwin to Freud to Bowen: Kerr (PDF)

DARWIN TO FREUD TO BOWEN: TOWARD A NATURAL SYSTEMS THEORY OF HUMAN BEHAVIOR
Michael E. Kerr, MD
Over the last four decades, Georgetown University psychiatrist Murray Bowen has developed a new theory of human emotional functioning and behavior called family systems theory, which views the family as a naturally occurring system. The theory not only provides new insights into human behavior, but it can contribute to bridging the compartmentalization of knowledge that exists in medicine and the life sciences. Since the theory has roots in the insights of Darwin and Freud, the story of its development begins more than a century ago.