“The House of the Seven Women”: the Fading of Generational Boundaries in the Family

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Seixas Magalhães ◽  
Terezinha Féres-Carneiro
Keyword(s):  
Family Structure ◽  
Home Environment ◽  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
Applied Psychology ◽  
Traumatic Memories ◽  
Catholic University ◽  
The Family ◽  
Family Memories ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Successive Generations

Underlying the constitution of the “family body” we find the generational past, transmitted and appropriated by successive generations. The family psyche, like the individual psyche, needs to be embedded in a body, which can be thought of as a family habitat, topically represented by the family's house or home. The house operates as a container for intersubjective contents of the family structure, in which family memories, affects, and ideals are deposited. The sense of belonging is constructed through what is lived, shared, and narrated within the family group. In this home environment, generational boundaries can be understood as walls of transmission; these allow the psychic support of the “family body”, operate as a symbolic filter, and therefore enable the individuation processes of family members. In this study, we discuss a family psychotherapy case, in which seven women—members of four cohabiting generations—were treated. This “house of the seven women” suffered from the fading of generational boundaries, evidenced by the women's difficult coexistence in a home marked by non-elaborated or unexpressed traumatic memories. This case was treated by the family psychotherapy unit of the Service of Applied Psychology (SPA) of the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro.

scholarly journals The Integrated Use of Individual and Family Psychotherapy

1984 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 89-97 ◽  
Author(s):  
P.D. Steinhauer ◽  
G.W. Tisdall
Keyword(s):  
Family Therapy ◽  
Family Structure ◽  
Individual Therapy ◽  
The Other ◽  
Individual Psychotherapy ◽  
Concurrent Use ◽  
The Family ◽  
Individual Family ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Individual Clinician

For almost thirty years after the development of family therapy, the concurrent use of family and individual psychotherapy was seen as incompatible by leading proponents of each modality. Although recently the literature has revealed an increased willingness to utilize family and individual therapies concurrently, the decision for or against any such combination has been left largely to the intuition or bias of the individual clinician. This paper suggests the concurrent use of family and individual psychotherapies when disturbances of family structure and interaction co-exist with, reinforce, and are maintained by largely ego-syntonic internalized psychopathology (that is, the character defences of individual family members). It provides a rationale for integrating the concurrent therapies, and uses clinical examples to illustrate how each can potentiate the other. There is a discussion of indications and contraindications for the integrated use of concurrent family and individual therapy. From their attempts to apply these principles, the authors conclude that the experience for the family, the individual and the therapists is that the selective and integrated use of concurrent family and individual therapies can achieve more than can either therapy alone — the whole is greater than the sum of the parts.

scholarly journals Effect of Home Environment on Different Dimensions of Emotional Maturity of Adolescents

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ms. Sukriti Mondal ◽  
Mr. Aniket Sutradhar
Keyword(s):  
Sample Size ◽  
Home Environment ◽  
Emotional Maturity ◽  
Small Children ◽  
The Family ◽  
Parental Relations ◽  
Different Dimensions ◽  
The Individual ◽  
And Function ◽  
Role And Function

The first lesson of a child’s life is learnt at home. The family nurtures the individual and prepares him for his role and function in the society. Healthy parental relations in the home are a medium for making children into wholesome and adjustable personalities. These ongoing changes in the society have not only affected the thinking of people but has also changed the perceptions of people, their lifestyles, even the dimensions of anxiety have changed, now even the small children are facing different kinds of pressures, so adolescence which is considered an age of storm and strife is bound to have more pressures which affect their emotional maturity. The main objective of the topic is to find out the effect of home environment on different dimensions of emotional maturity of adolescents of Bilaspur District of Chhattisgarh. A sample size of 120 Adolescents was selected and taken up for the study. Home Environment Inventory by Karuna Shankar Mishra and Emotional Maturity Scale by Dr. Yasvir Singh & Dr. Mahesh Bhargava are used for the study. It is found that there is significant effect of home environment on all the dimensions of emotional maturity of adolescents.

The Father and the Bride in Shakespeare

PMLA ◽  
1982 ◽  
Vol 97 (3) ◽  
pp. 325-347 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lynda E. Boose
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Family Structure ◽  
Economic Burden ◽  
Family Unit ◽  
Marriage Ceremony ◽  
The Family ◽  
Rival Male ◽  
Original Family ◽  
The Individual

Although sixteenth-century daughters were evidently an economic burden on their fathers, Shakespeare consistently depicts fathers whose love for their daughters is so possessive that it endangers the family unit. To delineate the tensions of this bond at its liminal moment, Shakespeare evokes the altar tableau of the marriage service. This paradigmatic substructure illuminates the central conflict in the father-daughter relationship: the father who resists the ritual's demands to give his daughter to a rival male destroys both his paternal authority and his family's generative future; yet the daughter who escapes without undergoing ritual severance violates the family structure and thus becomes both guiltlessly agentive in ruining her original family and tragically incapable of creating a new one. The marriage ceremony is designed to resolve this paradox. In Shakespeare's dramas, submission to this rite ensures the only possibility of freedom for the individual and of continuity for the family.

Family structure and educational achievement

1971 ◽  
Vol 3 (S3) ◽  
pp. 81-91 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Oldman ◽  
Bill Bytheway ◽  
Gordon Horobin
Keyword(s):  
Family Structure ◽  
Educational Achievement ◽  
Ordinal Position ◽  
Family Composition ◽  
Sex Composition ◽  
Occupational Success ◽  
The Family ◽  
Large Families ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Do So

This paper attempts a new look at an old problem. Throughout this century there have been many reports showing that certain characteristics of family structure are associated with the individual's performance in evaluative situations, be these IQ tests, tests of achievement, school and university examinations and even occupational success (for an excellent summary, see Anastasi, 1956). It is well known, for example, that children from large families tend not to do so well in such situations as children from small families, and that this phenomenon appears to be, in some degree, independent of socio-economic differences. This we can illustrate with our own data (Text-fig. 1) in which we see a steady decline in score on a nonverbal group test of intelligence as the size of the family increases. Less clear is whether other features of family composition, such as the spacing between siblings, the sex composition of the sibship and the ordinal position of the individual within the sibship, also affect achievement. (There is no lack of reports but, as we shall show, the evidence they provide is conflicting.)

scholarly journals La espiritualidad como mediación integradora del tejido social humano. Spirituality as an integrator mediation of the social human tissue.

Psicoespacios ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (14) ◽  
pp. 339
Author(s):  
Manuel Antonio Pérez Herrera
Keyword(s):  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
Direct Interaction ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Life Project ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
Integral Development ◽  
The Individual

Spirituality as an integrator mediation of the social human tissue.Resumen La espiritualidad vista como estado de equilibrio que logran los seres humanos, identificados como la relación armónica entre la función física-mental, social y afectiva de los seres vivos, en interacción directa con su entorno natural. La espiritualidad se caracteriza por esa condición de disfrute de condiciones de vida placentera, constituida desde la individualidad y colectividad humana, donde el ambiente del trópico es un mediador de la interacción espiritual con el mundo ecológico, del cual emanan: espacios de convivencia, sonidos armónicos, ambientes visuales, biodiversidad climatológica y condición de vida saludable y/o no saludable. Una educación transformista, está llamada a lograr en sus educando la conciliación espiritual de los valores humanos, la sana convivencia, el sentido de pertenencia por los valores del arte, la cultura, la familia, y de los bienes y valores sociales, propiciar espacios vitales para la integración comunitaria bajo un clima de respeto que invite a la integración del tejido social, en fin, una educación que se lance a la conquista del desarrollo pleno de la espiritualidad en las  personas y  devolverles el sentido al ser humano como proyecto de vida productiva. Palabras Clave: Espiritualidad, tejido social, integración ciudadana, medicación, valores, equilibrio, bienestar, ambientes. Abstract Spirituality is seen as a state of equilibrium that human beings get, identified as the harmonic relation between the physical, mental, social, and affective functions of the alive beings, in direct interaction with its natural environment. Spirituality characterizes for that enjoy of pleasant conditions, constituted by the individual and collective human. The tropical environment is a mediator of the spiritual interaction with the ecological world, by which emanate: peaceful living spaces, harmonic sounds, visual environments, biodiversity of climate and healthy or unhealthy life conditions. A transformer education is called to reach in students the spiritual conciliation of the human values, peaceful living conditions, the sense of belonging to the art, the culture, the family, and the goods and social values, and prepare vital spaces for the integration of the community under a climate of respect which invites to the integration of the social tissue, in brief, an education whose purpose be the conquest of the integral development of the spirituality of people and give them back the sense as a productive life project. Keywords: Spirituality, social tissue, citizen integration, mediation, values, equilibrium, well-being, environment.  

scholarly journals Mental Health Professionals View on the Need for Early Intervention for Offspring of Individual With Schizophrenia in India

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 1309-1315 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anuradha Sathiyaseelan
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Home Environment ◽  
Mental Health Professionals ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Phenomenological Approach ◽  
The Family ◽  
Interview Guide ◽  
Interpretative Phenomenological Approach ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Indian Scenario

Schizophrenia is a debilitating mental illness not only for the individual but also for the family, especially the children. There is a definitive likelihood of the vulnerability being transmitted to the child. As a result of the parents illness there may also be disruptions in the family dynamics and in home environment. However, many children have been found to show resiliency. The aim of this particular study was to explore the need for intervention in children who’s either parent were being treated for schizophrenia. Using qualitative Interpretative Phenomenological Approach (IPA) mental health professionals from all over India were interviewed with the help of validated interview guide. To understand their lived in experience of these professionals the audio recorded interviews were transcribed and analysed for exploring the themes using thematic analysis. Significant themes found indicated that early interventions were crucial for the wellbeing of the child, specifically in the Indian scenario.

scholarly journals Pharmacists and Pediatric Medication Adherence: Bridging the Gap

2017 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. 124-131 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah El-Rachidi ◽  
Joseph M. Larochelle ◽  
Jill A. Morgan
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Medication Adherence ◽  
Family Structure ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Family ◽  
Common Problems ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Treatment Culture

Pediatric medication nonadherence is a major problem in the United States health care system. Age of the child, lack of understanding about the disease or treatment, culture, socioeconomic status, family structure, schedule of medications, and taste can all contribute to this problem. Strategies that target interventions to the individual patient and family can be most effective. Pharmacists are at the forefront of patient care and can help children become more adherent to their medications through counseling and building a trusting relationship with the family. This article highlights some common problems to adherence and some solutions to increase adherence.

Niepełna rodzina jako zaburzenie prawidłowego funkcjonowania struktur rodzinnych

2018 ◽  
pp. 126-142
Author(s):  
Michał Kuzdak
Keyword(s):  
Family Structure ◽  
Family Ties ◽  
The Family ◽  
Modern Family

The author discusses the topic of families, especially incomplete. The work is about the disorganization of the family structure, showing its causes and history. The article describes the dangers of modern family and relations on the parentchild line. The author refers to economic emigration as one of the reasons for the loosening of family ties and the cause of incomplete families.

VALUE EDUCATION SYSTEM IN INDIA

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jyoti Narayan Patra ◽  
Jayanta Mete
Keyword(s):  
Education System ◽  
Personality Development ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Right

Values are like seeds that sprout, become saplings, grow into trees and spread their branches all around. To be able to think right, to feel the right kind of emotions and to act in the desirable manner are the prime phases of personality development. Building up of values system starts with the individual, moves on to the family and community, reorienting systems, structures and institutions, spreading throughout the land and ultimately embracing the planet as a whole. The culture of inclusivity is particularly relevant and important in the context of our society, nation and making education a right for all children.

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