In this book, Anne Ancelin Schutzenberger draws on over 20 years of experience as a therapist and analyst to explain and illustrate her unique psychogenealogical approach to psychotherapy.
In this text the author explains and provides clinical examples of her psychogenealogical approach to psychotherapy. She shows how, as mere links in a chain of generations, we may have no choice in having the events and traumas experienced by our ancestors visited upon us in our own lifetime.
The transgenerational approach; A genealogy of transgenerational therapy; Family therapy and the genogram/genosociogram; Invisible loyalties; Psychosomatic/somatopsychic; The crypt and the phantom; Origin and death; The genosociogram and the anniversary syndrome: my research; How to build your genosociogram; My transgenerational clinical practice; Case studies with simplified genosociograms; Anniversary syndrome and invisible family loyalty; Family Configuration and the Double Anniversary Syndrome; Legacy and family structure; Conclusion: the human canopy