A graduate of the University of Pittsburgh, she studied Bowen family systems theory at the WPIC Family Therapy Institute and at the Georgetown Family Center. Mrs. Rakow is a licensed social worker retired from private practice. Currently, she is pursuing independent study of Dr. Bowen’s research with families and schizophrenia conducted at the National Institute of Mental Health from 1954 to 1959 at the National Library of Medicine. Her interest is in how the observations of the live-in families contributed to the original theoretical concepts and how the data may yet contribute to extending Bowen theory.
