Extension of Bowen Theory to Include Natural Systems of Human Societies and Their Sustaining Environments

The concept of emotional process in society integrates the theory by establishing that the basic building block of human relationship system functions in societal-level relationship systems the same as it does in family systems. After M. Bowen’s death in 1990, the author began to write about the understandings and how she applied them to improve her understanding of the human’s relationship with the rest of nature and the human as part of all life on Earth. Bowen laid the groundwork to extend the theory further to include relationship systems of societies and their sustaining environments when he laid out in his regression hypothesis his thinking about human disharmony with nature under certain conditions of sustained chronic anxiety. The stage was set for continuing use of the inductive method to extend the theory to relationship systems between societies and their sustaining environments.