When I first read the post, I expected that “family systems” are related to Hellinger’s family constellations: this is a different method of psychotherapy which assumes completely different set of “subagents” to define human mind and its problems. In the Hellinger’s constellation method is assumed that actual family relations of a person has the biggest impact on the person’s wellbeing (and motivation), and that the family structure is somehow internalised. This family structure could be invoked by group of people (assigned by a psychotherapist) playing role of “father”, “mother” etc. and this group could be reorganised to be more healthy.
I don’t think its rational part is based on any “morphic fields”. If a person thinks that her mother is god, her father was a devil and suppressed any thoughts about the grandfather, it is expected (but damaged) family structure imprinted in her brain and she will repeat it again when she will try to built her own relations. The best way to learn more about family constellations is just try in ones in a local group—at least, in my case, it helped me to solve long conflict with my mother. The less effective may be to read Bert Hellinger’s early books: it provides a theory, but without some experience it may look a little strange.
When I first read the post, I expected that “family systems” are related to Hellinger’s family constellations: this is a different method of psychotherapy which assumes completely different set of “subagents” to define human mind and its problems. In the Hellinger’s constellation method is assumed that actual family relations of a person has the biggest impact on the person’s wellbeing (and motivation), and that the family structure is somehow internalised. This family structure could be invoked by group of people (assigned by a psychotherapist) playing role of “father”, “mother” etc. and this group could be reorganised to be more healthy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_Constellations
Wow. I didn’t expect to see a therapy approach based on morphic fields.
I don’t think its rational part is based on any “morphic fields”. If a person thinks that her mother is god, her father was a devil and suppressed any thoughts about the grandfather, it is expected (but damaged) family structure imprinted in her brain and she will repeat it again when she will try to built her own relations. The best way to learn more about family constellations is just try in ones in a local group—at least, in my case, it helped me to solve long conflict with my mother. The less effective may be to read Bert Hellinger’s early books: it provides a theory, but without some experience it may look a little strange.