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...controlled system. Sometimes, when internal pressures threaten to blow the family apart, one member-usually a son or daughter-either knowingly or unknowingly agrees to become mentally ill. In a number of complex ways, this tactic holds the family together. But the child pays a big price. Says Murray Bowen, a clinical professor of psychiatry at the Georgetown University Medical Center: "The main building block of schizophrenia is the process through which parental immaturity is transmitted to children...
Mother's Role. Most family therapists try to get at the roots of schizophrenia by treating parents and grandparents as well as the child. But at a Manhattan conference of family therapists (titled "Beyond the Double Bind"), Bowen insisted that the roots go farther back. In fact, he believes that it probably takes close to ten generations of parental weakness to produce a schizophrenic...
Still, their handling of racial matters is the key to the new Southern politicians. They are not colorblind. Far from it?they especially court the black vote. Mississippi's Democratic Representative David Bowen, 43, is typical. Says he: "I make a special effort to reach out. I speak in black churches and to black civic groups. I've been to dozens of black clubs and gatherings. That's not a unique situation now. Anyone in Mississippi who wants to get elected does that. These are my constituents...
Morris has also arranged with other merchants-notably the Providence firm of Brown, Hopkins, Jenckes & Bowen-to seek out arms in the West Indies and Europe for 2½ percent commission. John Brown arranged to buy a cargo of gunpowder in Surinam last November and charged a price of 6 shillings a pound, which General Washington called "most exorbitant" (in December Brown made a profit of ?20,000 for such work). But the price is still rising. On Brown, Hopkins' latest shipment from the West Indies a month ago, the firm had to pay 14 shillings a pound...
...Joseph Bowen...