family psychotherapy: multigenerational perspective/families of origin/multigenerational therapy
The interactional patterns of a nuclear family often prove to have been prefigured and established in the parents' families of origin. Emotional and social disorders can thus be seen as the expression of problems that have been developed and passed on over the course of many generations. A multigenerational perspective does not, for example, view the mother of a schizophrenic child as responsible for the child's schizophrenia; the mother is merely one "player" in a long line of "players" in other generations. Specific rules and values of the family system have been established during the course of the family coevolution. In certain situations, the rules and values can result in conflict, tension, and strain, which give rise to symptoms. With this in mind, it often makes sense to include the grandparents in therapy, either for diagnostic reasons or to change the relational patterns of the family.*
Also: multigenerational transmission
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- DAD DVD Jack Lemmon, Ted Danson 1989
- Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood VHS | VHS subtitled in Spanish | DVD | DVD Widescreen Sandra Bullock, Ellen Burstyn 2002 Prism Award Nominee
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Friedman, Edwin H. Generation to Generation - Family Process in Church and Synagogue (Guilford Family Therapy Series) Hardcover (March 1986)
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In Her Shoes DVD | DVD Full Screen | DVD Widescreen Cameron Diaz, Shirley MacLaine, Tony Collette 2005
*Extracted with permission from Simon, Fritz et al Language of Family Therapy - A Systemic Vocabulary and Source Book (Family Process Press Series) Paperback 1985 Family Process, Inc.