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1 online resource (217 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of figures; Preface: the living past, or grandfather's parrot; Acknowledgements; Part I The transgenerational approach; 1 A genealogy of transgenerational therapy: from the unconscious to the genosociogram; 2 Family therapy and the genogram/genosociogram; 3 Invisible loyalties; 4 Psychosomatic/somatopsychic: the mind-body connection; 5 The crypt and the phantom; 6 Origin and death; 7 The genosociogram and the anniversary syndrome: my research; 8 How to build your genosociogram |
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9 My transgenerational clinical practicePart II Case studies with simplified genosociograms; 10 Anniversary syndrome and invisible family loyalty; Charles: anniversary syndrome and invisible loyalty; Mark: family repetition of accidents; Jacqueline: the Armenian genocide; Valerie and Roger: can you ""inherit"" car accidents?; 11 Family configuration and the double anniversary syndrome; Vulnerability and anniversary stress; Two brothers, one survivor; Lucien: genealogical incest; ""Mrs Andrew""; The Martin-Leroux family: triple genealogical incest |
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Two Mrs Browns: unresolved genealogical incestContinuing the spiral of relations by marriage; The reconstituted family; 12 Legacy and family structure; The Mortelacs: child deaths over several generations; Predictions and maledictions in history; The effects of ""strong words""; Delenda -- a father's anger and a child's sex; The priest: strong words misunderstood; Van Gogh, Dali and Freud: replacement child and repairing child; Cendrine and a few others: marking the anniversary; Four other examples; Noelle: conflict of habit and food identity; 13 Conclusion: the human canopy |
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Appendix 1: Definition of the crypt and the phantomAppendix 2: Josephine Hilgard's statistical research; Appendix 3: On the souls of women; Appendix 4: An example of substitution incest; Appendix 5: ""I remember"": stigmata of family memories; Appendix 6: Trauma of the ""wind of the cannonball""; Appendix 7: Incest and second-type incest; Appendix 8: The anniversary syndrome; Appendix 9: Two case studies of the anniversary syndrome; Appendix 10: A few historical dates; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
In The Ancestor Syndrome Anne Ancelin Schutzenberger explains and provides clinical examples of her unique 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 book includes fascinating case studies and examples of 'genosociograms' (family trees) to illustrate how her clients have conquered seemingly irrational fears, psychological and even physical difficulties by discovering and understanding the parallels b |
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Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781317724827 |
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1317724828 |
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