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Title

The ancestor syndrome : transgenerational psychotherapy and the hidden links in the family tree / Anne Ancelin Schützenberger ; translated by Anne Trager.

Author

Ancelin Schützenberger, Anne

Publication

London ; New York : Routledge, 1998.

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Description

xii, 202 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

In this text the author 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.

Uniform Title

Aïe, mes aïeux!. English

Alternative Title

Aïe, mes aïeux!.

Subject

• Family > psychology
• Intergenerational Relations
• Family Relations
• Psychotherapy
• Psychotherapy patients > Family relationships
• Intergenerational relations
• Subconsciousness
• Families > Psychic aspects
• Coincidence
• Unconscious, Psychology

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [181]-196) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Preface: the living past, or grandfather's parrot -- Pt. 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. 9. My transgenerational clinical practice -- Pt. II. Case studies with simplified genosociograms. 10. Anniversary syndrome and invisible family loyalty. 11. Family configuration and the double anniversary syndrome. 12. Legacy and family structure. 13. Conclusion: the human canopy -- App. 1. Definition of the crypt and the phantom -- App. 2. Josephine Hilgard's statistical research -- App. 3. On the souls of women -- App. 4. An example of substitution incest -- App. 5. "I remember": stigmata of family memories.
• App. 6. Trauma of the "wind of the cannonball" -- App. 7. Incest and second-type incest -- App. 8. The anniversary syndrome -- App. 9. Two case studies of the anniversary syndrome -- App. 10. A few historical dates.

ISBN

• 0415191866 (hbk.)
• 0415191874 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^98020148^

OCLC

39052095

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library