‘The Memory of the Tree’: A New Theatrical Model of Genogram

Dramatherapy ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 38 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 94-105
Author(s):  
Fabrizio Fiaschini
Keyword(s):  
Family Of Origin ◽  
Graphical Representation ◽  
The Body ◽  
Narrative Form ◽  
Body Memory ◽  
Family Ties ◽  
New Variant ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Systemic Psychotherapy

In the context of systemic psychotherapy, the genogram represents a model of graphical representation which the persons involved produce and comment on in order to provide information about their family of origin, from at least a three-generational perspective. This paper proposes a new variant of the genogram, focused on theatrical language: the result of a five-year experiment in the training of dramatherapists, psychologists, psychotherapists and counsellors. Starting from Stanislavski's and Grotowski's research, the paper highlights the potentialities that the theatre perspective may have with the genogram. Thanks to the ‘emotive memory’ and ‘body-memory’, the theatre can enrich the genogram method with a set of operational tools that can increase the introspective potential of the genogram itself, especially through the aid of physical actions. If the act of drawing represents an expressive ‘medium’ in the traditional genogram for stimulating the affective memory of family ties, then the language of performance can even better represent this medium, centred as it is on the activation of the body as a vehicle capable of bringing into contact the individual with his identity and his deep memory, even regarding the family, in order to creatively translate this into a communicative and narrative form.

Respublica Christiana

1911 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 63-88 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Neville Figgis
Keyword(s):  
Living Will ◽  
The State ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Real ◽  
Legal Personality ◽  
Inaugural Lecture ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Natural Expression

I think it was Lord Halsbury, in the Scotch Church case, who stopped one of the advocates in his use of the word Church, saying that they as a Court had nothing to do with that, and that they could only consider the question as one concerning a trust. In other words, with a religious society as such they could not deal, but only with a trust or a registered company. This is only one instance of a fact exhibited in the whole of that case: namely, the refusal of the legal mind of our day to consider even the possibility of societies possessing an inherent, self-developing life apart from such definite powers as the State, or the individuals founding the body under State authority, have conferred upon them explicitly. In this view, apart from the State, the real society—and from individuals the living members of the State—there are no active social unities; all other apparent communal unities are directly or indirectly delegations, either of State powers or of individuals. To such a view the notion is abhorrent of a vast hierarchy of interrelated societies, each alive, each personal, owing to the State loyalty, and by it checked or assisted in their action no less than are private individuals, but no more deriving their existence from Government concession than does the individual or the family. In other words, these phrases of Lord Halsbury are but the natural expression of the concession theory of corporate life which sees it as a fictitious personality, the creation by the State for its own purposes, and consequently without any natural or inherent powers of its own. This theory is not so universally accepted as was once the case, but Professor Geldart's inaugural lecture on ‘Legal Personality’ shows how great are the obstacles still to be encountered by that theory of realism which is for most of us associated with the name of Gierke, and was popularised by Maitland. The latter, moreover, has shewn how this very English institution of the trust has preserved us from the worse perils of the rigid doctrinaire conception of the civilian. For under the name of a trust many of the qualities of true personality have been able to develop unmolested. But this has not been all to the good. It has probably delayed the victory of the true conception, by enabling us to ‘muddle through’ with the false one. Moreover, the trust is and assimilates itself always rather to the Anstalt or the Stiftung than to the living communal society, the true corporation, with its basis in the Genossenschaft; and consequently, as was proved in this Scotch case, the necessary independence of a self-developing personality is denied to it, and its acts are treated as invalid on this very ground—that it is only a trust tied rigidly to its establishing terms, and not a true society with a living will and power of change.

scholarly journals Malestar Emocional Y Trastorno Psicosomático En Parejas E Hijas De Migrantes. El Caso De Una Comunidad Del Valle Del Mezquital, Hidalgo, México

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerardo Hurtado Arriaga ◽  
Edgar C. Jarillo Soto ◽  
Veronica Rodrí­guez Contreras ◽  
Sergio Santamarí­a Suárez
Keyword(s):  
Structured Interview ◽  
Human Condition ◽  
The Body ◽  
Psychosomatic Disorders ◽  
Family Ties ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
The Family ◽  
Women And Children ◽  
De Medicina

ResumenLa migración internacional, indocumentada, de corto o a largo plazo, genera entre los que se van (padres migrantes) y los que se quedan (esposa e hijos/as) un reacomodo forzado en los ví­nculos familiares; sobre todo se presenta cierta vulnerabilidad emocional y corporal que se articula con extrañamientos, con ausencias y/o presencias, con rupturas, temores, conflictos que afectan la dinámica de la familia. Las emociones son parte de la condición humana y tienen, hasta cierto punto, un curso libre en la vida del sujeto; pero una persona vulnerable a emociones recurrentes de tristeza, enojo, miedo o ansiedad, provocadas por la insatisfacción, por la desesperanza, será candidata a que dichas emociones se instalen en el cuerpo y presenten trastornos psicosomáticos severos. Este estudio cualitativo tiene el propósito de explicar la vulnerabilidad emocional y los trastornos psicosomáticos en parejas mujeres e hijos/as de migrantes de una comunidad rural de la región del Valle del Mezquital, Hidalgo, México. Se utilizó un cuestionario para conocer la realidad socioeconómica de la población y la entrevista semiestructurada. Algunos resultados obtenidos en las parejas son: tristeza, enojo y miedo como emociones recurrentes que se vinculan con la incertidumbre de su relación conyugal, un sentimiento de abandono permanente. Mujeres con dolores de cabeza y colitis nerviosa. En los hijos/ as: trastornos gastrointestinales, enojo permanente con el padre migrante, afrentas con los cuidadores (abuelas, tí­as, primos).Palabras clave: migración, emociones, trastorno psicosomático, enlaces familiares. AbstractInternational Migration, undocumented, form short to long term, it generates among those who leave (migrant parents) and those who stay (wife and children) a forced rearrangement on family ties; mainly it occurs some emotional and corporal vulnerability which is linked to estrangement, absences and/or presences, with fractures, fears, conflicts that affect the dynamic of the family. Emotions are part of human condition and have till certain point a free path in the subject’s life; but in a vulnerable person to recurrent emotions of sadness, anger, fear or anxiety, produced by dissatisfaction, hopelessness, will be a candidate for such emotions to settle in the body and present severe psychosomatic disorders. This qualitative study has the purpose to explain the emotional vulnerability and psychosomatic disorders in couples, women, and children of migrants in a rural community of the El Valle del Mezquital region in Hidalgo, Mexico. A questionnaire was used to know the socioeconomic reality of the population; and a semi-structured interview. Some of the obtained results in couples are: sadness, anger and fear as recurrent emotions that are linked with uncertainty in their marital relationship, a feeling of permanent abandonment. Women with headaches and nervous colitis. In the children, gastrointestinal disorders, permanent anger with the migrant parent, affronts with caregivers (grandmothers, aunts, cousins).Keywords: Migration, Emotions, Psychosomatic, Family Links. [1] Doctor. Profesor-investigador del Área Académica de Psicologí­a de la Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo. Lí­der del Grupo de Investigación Grupos Vulnerables y responsable del proyecto de investigación, migración y niñez.[2] Doctor. Profesor-investigador en la Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Xochimilco. Docente del programa de maestrí­a de medicina social y del doctorado Ciencias en Salud Colectiva. Su proyecto actual es ‘investigación’; sobre la construcción social de las profesiones de la salud.[3] Doctora. Profesora-investigadora del Área Académica de Psicologí­a de la Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo. Integrante del Grupo de Investigación Grupos Vulnerables. Su proyecto de investigación actual es Estrategias para el desarrollo de la salud en las relaciones parentales vulnerables.[4] Doctor. Profesor-investigador del Área Académica de Psicologí­a de la Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo. Integrante del grupo de investigación Grupos Vulnerables y responsable del proyecto de investigación Diagnóstico e intervención en grupos vulnerables al delito de secuestro.

scholarly journals La tenerezza: una risorsa nella famiglia

2020 ◽  
pp. 149-163
Author(s):  
Krzysztof Trębski
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
Family Ties ◽  
Internal Resources ◽  
Family Crisis ◽  
The Family ◽  
Basic Features

The origin of the current family crisis does not consist exclusively of factors external to the family, but above all in the lack of internal resources that support and solidify the family from within. In the context of marriage institution crisis and recent transformation of the concept of the family, it is important to reflect on the appropriate remedies to deal with this situation. The article tries to present tenderness as an important factor in restoring balance within the family. For the members of a family it is important to be able to express tenderness through the language of the body. This makes their relationships more authentic and expresses their commitment to building strong and lasting family ties. The last part of the article is an attempt to outline the basic features of the spirituality of tenderness in order to give the family new strength and stability.

scholarly journals The Hand of Law and the Body of Family. Family, Fear and the Court of Law in Qing China

Corpus Mundi ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 83-119
Author(s):  
Asia Alyevna Sarakaeva
Keyword(s):  
Filial Piety ◽  
The Body ◽  
Chinese Family ◽  
Special Importance ◽  
Court Cases ◽  
Family Conflicts ◽  
The Family ◽  
Qing Government ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Adventure Novels

The article, through the lens of crimes and court cases, explores the complex relationship between the individual, family and state in China in the XVII-XIX centuries. The research is based on archival court cases and fiction literature of traditional China. The author examines crimes committed within the family, analyses the testimony of criminals and witnesses, as well as sentences and government decrees; compares the real transcripts of court hearings with the depiction of family conflicts, investigations and trials in adventure novels and short stories by Chinese writers. As a result, the author comes to a number of conclusions, in particular, that the Qing government gradually shifted the emphasis from the value of filial piety and generational hierarchy to the special importance of marriage relations; while in public mindset, on the contrary, the inertia of Confucianism and the desire to protect the integrity and autonomy of the family body from interference by state power were extremely strong. Speaking about the reaction of the Chinese family to the crime that occurred within its ranks, the author identifies several typical ways of responding, with the choice of method being often determined by the gender of the conflicting parties.

scholarly journals Transformation of family ties

Family Forum ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. 15-35
Author(s):  
Stanisław Andrzej Sorys
Keyword(s):  
Time Perspective ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Individual Development ◽  
Family Ties ◽  
Leading Role ◽  
The Family ◽  
Modern Family ◽  
Conducting Research ◽  
Mutual Relations ◽  
The Individual

The family and the family ties it creates shape the attitudes and behavior of a person who grows in it. They also have a decisive influence on the character of the family that they will start in the future. The values acquired in the family home will enable him to build and strengthen family ties, largely based on his own and family experiences. The context of the research was the modern family, which, despite the many transformations that have occurred within it as a result of cultural and civilization changes, is still an inseparable element of human life, with a leading and leading role in the development of a child, at the same time defining its worldview as an adult. The aim of the research was to show the changes occurring within the mutual relations between the family and the individual from the time perspective from the period defined by the so-called “Late modernity” or “postmodern society” up to the present (postmodernity). The author shows that the current shape of the family, which many researchers refer to as its crisis or even collapse, is the result of a long process involving changes in mutual obligations and at the same time the desire for individual development of members of that family. This leads to the rejection of existing forms and ties, the loss of traditional beliefs, knowledge and norms, and the creation of a new type of social bond. The scientific method was applied in the form of multi-station ethnography (Marcus 2003), which is a method of conducting research in conditions of discontinuity of cultural formations, when supra-local factors influence the situation in a given locality, causing various “practices, anxieties and ambiguities” (Marcus 2003, p. 170). The conclusions from this study were that the family, despite the weaknesses shown, is still an important institution for the individual. It is also the only institution that is able to defend an individual against negative aspects resulting from postmodernity. Therefore, in the policy of the state, it is necessary and necessary to pay more attention to the transformations of the family bond in the constantly changing socio-cultural conditions, in which the role of the traditional family is diminishing.

Introduction to systemic family therapy

2016 ◽  
Vol 33 (S1) ◽  
pp. S559-S560
Author(s):  
I. Peñuelas Calvo ◽  
J. Sevilla Llewellyn-Jones ◽  
C. Cervesi ◽  
A. Sareen ◽  
A. Gonzalez Moreno
Keyword(s):  
Family Therapy ◽  
Family System ◽  
Clinical Care ◽  
Family Ties ◽  
The Family ◽  
Competing Interest ◽  
The Stability ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Systemic Family Therapy ◽  
Stability And Consistency

IntroductionIn the past six decades, extensive research has been done on family therapy from different areas of knowledge such as psychology, psychiatry and social work. Leading to development of different intervention techniques and optimal clinical evaluation with families.AimsThe systemic perspective focus on the study of the dimensions that contribute to the stability and consistency of the members of the family system. The family is an interrelated system, dependent on each other, where there is an influence of the group over the individual, which is why each of its members plays a pivotal role in family therapy. Throughout all these years of evolution of systemic family therapy, many different concepts and techniques have been used, including the ones currently used today.MethodsKnowing the evolution of the different techniques allows us to understand the functioning of families, for example, their links and the elements that constitute it: their roles, the functions performed by each member in the family, communication, standards and power relations.ConclusionsThe descriptive diagnosis of family ties, help us implement intervention strategies that could improve clinical care and diagnostic approach.Disclosure of interestThe authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.

Influence of stable iodine on the uptake of the thyroid – model vs. experiment

2001 ◽  
Vol 40 (01) ◽  
pp. 31-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
U. Wellner ◽  
E. Voth ◽  
H. Schicha ◽  
K. Weber
Keyword(s):  
Time Course ◽  
Compartment Model ◽  
The Body ◽  
Iodine Uptake ◽  
Model Calculations ◽  
Physiological Conditions ◽  
Iodine Supply ◽  
Predicted Values ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Stable Iodine

Summary Aim: The influence of physiological and pharmacological amounts of iodine on the uptake of radioiodine in the thyroid was examined in a 4-compartment model. This model allows equations to be derived describing the distribution of tracer iodine as a function of time. The aim of the study was to compare the predictions of the model with experimental data. Methods: Five euthyroid persons received stable iodine (200 μg, 10 mg). 1-123-uptake into the thyroid was measured with the Nal (Tl)-detector of a body counter under physiological conditions and after application of each dose of additional iodine. Actual measurements and predicted values were compared, taking into account the individual iodine supply as estimated from the thyroid uptake under physiological conditions and data from the literature. Results: Thyroid iodine uptake decreased from 80% under physiological conditions to 50% in individuals with very low iodine supply (15 μg/d) (n = 2). The uptake calculated from the model was 36%. Iodine uptake into the thyroid did not decrease in individuals with typical iodine supply, i.e. for Cologne 65-85 μg/d (n = 3). After application of 10 mg of stable iodine, uptake into the thyroid decreased in all individuals to about 5%, in accordance with the model calculations. Conclusion: Comparison of theoretical predictions with the measured values demonstrated that the model tested is well suited for describing the time course of iodine distribution and uptake within the body. It can now be used to study aspects of iodine metabolism relevant to the pharmacological administration of iodine which cannot be investigated experimentally in humans for ethical and technical reasons.

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