While Bowenian therapy has been embraced by some leading feminist therapists, such as Betty Carter and Harriet Goldhor Lerner, it has also received its share of criticism from a feminist perspective. Deborah Leupnitz (1988) points out that Bowen, along with other male family therapy pioneers, has paid rather too much attention to the mother's contribution to symptom development in the child. Some support for this can be found by scanning the index to Kerr and Bowen (1988), where 'fathers' do not warrant a category yet 'mothers' are referenced in relation to families of schizophrenics, levels of differentiation in the child, and their role in triangles (Kerr and Bowen, 1988: 395). [The index to Bowen's own collected papers, Family Therapy in Clinical Practice, however, includes one reference to 'fathers' and none to 'mothers': Eds.] A perceived over-investment by a mother in her child is seen as a sign of undifferentiation.
Unlike the current feminist therapists who use the Bowenian model, Murray Bowen (along with many of his Georgetown colleagues) failed to contextualise maternal behaviour. Patriarchal assumptions about male / female roles and family organisation are not acknowledged or critiqued, which leaves women vulnerable to having their socially prescribed roles pathologised. Women are readily labelled as 'over concerned', and their active, relational role in families too easily labelled as 'fused' and 'undifferentiated'. There is no questioning of societal norms that can be seen to '[school] females into undifferentiation by teaching them always to put others' needs first'
While Bowenian therapy has been embraced by some leading feminist therapists, such as Betty Carter and Harriet Goldhor Lerner, it has also received its share of criticism from a feminist perspective. Deborah Leupnitz (1988) points out that Bowen, along with other male family therapy pioneers, has paid rather too much attention to the mother's contribution to symptom development in the child. Some support for this can be found by scanning the index to Kerr and Bowen (1988), where 'fathers' do not warrant a category yet 'mothers' are referenced in relation to families of schizophrenics, levels of differentiation in the child, and their role in triangles (Kerr and Bowen, 1988: 395). [The index to Bowen's own collected papers, Family Therapy in Clinical Practice, however, includes one reference to 'fathers' and none to 'mothers': Eds.] A perceived over-investment by a mother in her child is seen as a sign of undifferentiation.Unlike the current feminist therapists who use the Bowenian model, Murray Bowen (along with many of his Georgetown colleagues) failed to contextualise maternal behaviour. Patriarchal assumptions about male / female roles and family organisation are not acknowledged or critiqued, which leaves women vulnerable to having their socially prescribed roles pathologised. Women are readily labelled as 'over concerned', and their active, relational role in families too easily labelled as 'fused' and 'undifferentiated'. There is no questioning of societal norms that can be seen to '[school] females into undifferentiation by teaching them always to put others' needs first'
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