Emotional Process and Bowen Theory

"Emotions. The neuropeptides and receptors, the biochemicals of emotion, are, as I have said, the messengers carrying information to link the major systems of the body into one unit that we can call the bodymind. We can no longer think of the emotions as having less validity than physical, material substance, but instead must see them as cellular signals that are involved in the process of translating information into physical reality, literally transforming mind into matter. Emotions are at the nexus between matter and mind, going back and forth between the two and influencing both." Molecules of Emotion by Candace B. Pert, Ph.D.

Perhaps this biological understanding of bodymind, helps clarify an important foundation of Bowen theory. My understanding of his constructs about "universal emotional process" center around the notions that by "emotional" he meant = instinctual (not feelings), and by "universal" he meant = that which applies to all human beings, and "process" = is the 24/7 ongoing working out of those universal - instinctual behaviors; biologically inherited and hard-wired by evolution,
that motivate and influence (unconsciously or consciously) all human behavior.
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