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Article
Genodrama as a Possible Processing of Family Patterns and Inheritance
Author(s)
Borbála Tóth
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DOI:10.17265/2159-5542/2018.08.003
Affiliation(s)
Paediatric Clinic No.2, Semmelweis Medical University, Budapest, Hungary
ABSTRACT
The
introduction of genodrama and genogram with literature references. The subject
of the research is discovering transgenerational patterns hiding in the
background of a 150-hour long genodramatic process of a group and after
processing genogram in a genodramatic play. Genodrama group consist of 10
people, psychologists, and helping specialists, which was organized by the
Hungarian Psychological Association and accredited by the Semmelweis
University. Methods are registering and processing genogram using the signs of
Mc Goldrick-Gerson-Shellenberger in their book titled Genograms. The
participants could gain a deeper insight into their family patterns and blind
spots by the help of a transgenerational system map provided by genogram; even
family secrets surfaced. By drawing the triangulations, the centre straining
the family became seeable and therefore processable. All participants gained
possibility for a deep emotional (re)living of the situation, which helped
living understanding, empathy, and forgiveness for the ancestors, and that the
disfunctional family patterns would not be transmitted. Spirituality appeared
in the group in several levels spontaneously, helping the evolution of an “experience
of unity”. The study summarizes the effects and strengths of genodrama as a
group process. The participants of the group could experience that they carry
and bear behaviour patterns and fate of their ancestors, sometimes for hundreds
of years, which hide in the background of their trauma, obstruction, or entanglement
in life. By processing these after bringing them to the surface, the person is
able to cut off the maladaptive pattern. According to the theories concerning
the familial unconscious of Lipót Szondi, the person becomes able to exchange
compulsory fate for a freely chosen one, this way giving the opportunity of a
better quality of life for the next generation.
KEYWORDS
system approach, genogram, genodrama, transgenerational inheritance, revealing trauma, spirituality
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