Gift and Duty Configurations Within the Family Environment
Journal Title: Journal of Experiential Psychotherapy - Year 2016, Vol 19, Issue 4
Abstract
Introduction: In the present article we aimed to explore, identify and represent the problematic present experiences relating to the gift and duty phenomenon within the family context. Furthermore, our focus on the psychotherapeutic approach from a psycho-genealogical point of view is intended to offer psychotherapists the possibilities to identify the occurrence pattern of the change phenomenon. We have also tried to help clients make the best use of their resources during the therapeutic sessions and to identify their own needs concerning the manifestation of their autonomy and self respect. Objectives: Our objective is to determine the generational effects of gift and duty relationships and their effect on parent-children relationships. Our hypothesis was that the identification of specific trans-generational dynamics concerning gift and duty, has an impact on the psycho (pathological) aspects in daily life experiences. Methods: A qualitative approach involving clients was conducted in order to discover the dynamics of gift and duty phenomenological and dynamic relationships in parent-children (adult) relationships. For the evaluation of the gift and duty phenomenon we used drama-genograms and an experiential grid, extracting relevant psychotherapeutic aspects. Results: The case study analysis indicates specific relationships between parents and children concerning certain difficulties in the gift and duty dynamics. Every case study indicates a specific trans-generational schema of the interrelationship between family members throughout generations. Conclusions: The use of psycho-genealogical therapeutic procedure sessions helped the participants get the proper understanding and implement a healthy separation process in parent-children relationship
Authors and Affiliations
Alin Sebastian Godeanu
Keywords
Related Articles
- EP ID EP245739
- DOI -
- Views 48
- Downloads 0
“Filia Alchemic Dance” – an Experiential and Transpersonal Program for Restructuring, Healing and Activation of Amplified Consciousness States
Introduction: The psychotherapeutic program ”Filia Alchemic Dance”, developed ever since 2006 in Braşov, represents a holistic and integrative approach to human personality, having as a main frame the ”Unifying Experient...
Mental Health and Adverse Psychosocial Factors in Cardiovascular Patients. An Exploratory and Descriptive Study
Introduction: There is an increasing interest in integrating mental health services into general health ones for cardiac patients, especially because there has been demonstrated that the evolution of cardiovascular disea...
Psycho-Socio-Professional Aspects of Foster Care in Romania
Introduction: This paper represents a part of a research that is intended to support the family from the child protection system. We wanted to bring benefits through the implementation of standardized methods and techniq...
The Symbolic Experiential Approach of Creative Improvisation through Literature Technique within the Unifying Personal Development Group – Case study –
Introduction: Creative improvisation through literature is an experiential and creativeexpressive technique which uses the spontaneous story-writing in order to help someone knowing himself better but also to overcome so...
The Use of Clean Language and Metaphor in Helping Clients Overcoming Procrastination
Modern cognitive science has revealed that human beings think in metaphor (Pinker, S., 2008) and analogy (Hofstadter, D.R. & Sander, E., 2013): by comparing and connecting one kind of concept to another kind of concept u...