Chronic Anxiety
慢性焦慮

In this video, Host Allen Blakey interviews Dr. Michael Kerr, Director of the Bowen Center for the Study of the Family at that time. What turns the stress response, with its adaptive survival value, into a chronic condition that is detrimental to health and relationships? In Bowen theory it’s all linked to relationships and the relationship system. The concept of the self is fundamental to Bowen theory.

People with higher levels of self have an increased ability to use their objective thinking to choose how to act within the family emotional unit. When tension increases, it becomes more difficult to act based on thinking. When someone in the family can operate with a little more self, chronic anxiety can decrease.

在這段影片中，主持人 Allen Blakey 採訪了當時的博域家庭研究中心主任 Michael Kerr醫生。是什麼導致具有適應性生存價值的壓力反應變成了對健康和人際關係有害的慢性病？在博域理論中，這一切都與關係和關係系統有關。自我的概念是系統理論的基礎。

自我水平較高的人具有較強的能力來使用客觀思維去選擇如何在家庭情感單位中運作。當緊張增加時，人會較難以思考或理性來行事。若家庭中有人可以用更多的自我來運作時，慢性焦慮就會減少。