Bowen's Differentiation (2016 Rerun)
Psychology In Seattle Podcast
Kirk Honda
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🗓️ 19 June 2025
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July 18, 2016
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| 0:00.0 | Today, I thought I would just read some patron emails. |
| 0:03.8 | But before that, I'll introduce the podcast. |
| 0:05.7 | It's called Psychology in Seattle. |
| 0:07.3 | I'm your host, Dr. Kirk Honda. |
| 0:09.9 | I'm a licensed therapist, and I'm also a professor. |
| 0:12.6 | This email is from patron Liz. |
| 0:15.3 | She says, hey, Kirk, I just listened to your interview with Dr. Michelle Finley. |
| 0:20.0 | You mentioned that upon interviewing her, she seemed well differentiated and have used the term at other times. |
| 0:27.9 | Could you maybe talk about what that word means in the psychology world? |
| 0:32.5 | Also, Paulette is perfection. |
| 0:35.5 | I love her honesty and quick wit. Hugs from Manitowoc County, or I added the |
| 0:43.2 | county part because isn't it Manitowoc County or is it a town too? Anyway, patron Liz, Manitowoc made |
| 0:50.1 | famous by the awesome documentary making a murderer. |
| 0:57.0 | I've communicated with the patron Liz before. |
| 1:00.2 | So, yeah, well differentiated or differentiation is a complicated topic, and I didn't quite |
| 1:07.7 | understand it until after, I don't know, a few years of studying it and, you know, |
| 1:13.9 | coming back to it and thinking more and coming back to it. So it's kind of complicated, but I'll try to |
| 1:19.9 | explain it. It's part of Murray Bowen's natural family systems theory or what often is just called Bowenian theory. |
| 1:30.0 | And if you're a patron, I believe it's a premium episode in which you have access to in which I go, |
| 1:36.3 | I think I talk for a few hours about Poetian theory. |
| 1:39.4 | It's pretty complicated. |
| 1:40.3 | There's a lot of nuances to it. |
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