17 Facts About Murray Bowen

Murray Bowen was an American psychiatrist and a professor in psychiatry at Georgetown University.

Murray Bowen was born in 1913 as the oldest of five and grew up in the small town of Waverly, Tennessee, where his father was the mayor for some time.

Murray Bowen earned his BS in 1934 at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville.

Murray Bowen received his MD in 1937 at the Medical School of the University of Tennessee in Memphis.

From 1954 to 1959, Murray Bowen worked at the National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, Maryland.

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Murray Bowen continued to develop the theory based in systematic therapy which viewed the family as an emotional unit, later known as Bowen Theory.

Murray Bowen's approach gained national attention within two years of its introduction.

Murray Bowen did research on parents who lived with one adult schizophrenic child, which he thought could provide a paradigm for all children.

Murray Bowen's research focused on human interaction within the family “unit” or system.

Murray Bowen focused on the prodromal states that preceded a medical diagnosis.

Murray Bowen's colleagues have described him as having “an unrelenting conviction that theory is the most important foundation for psychiatry, family theory, and other practice fields.

Murray Bowen was visiting professor in a variety of medical schools, including at the University of Maryland from 1956 to 1963 and at the Medical College of Virginia at Richmond from 1964 to 1978.

Murray Bowen was a life fellow at the American Psychiatric Association and at the American Orthopsychiatric Association, and a life member at the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry.

Murray Bowen was on the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology in 1961 and first president at the American Family Therapy Association.

Murray Bowen was the first president of the American Family Therapy Association from 1978 to 1982.

In November 2002, Murray Bowen's papers were donated to the US National Library of Medicine.

Murray Bowen wrote about fifty papers, book chapters, and monographs based on his radically new relationships-based theory of human behavior.