The ghosts and legend of Azzurrina – in Italian
Do you know how a legend is born? From a true story. The dynamics are similar to those of the well-known children’s game ‘telephone’. And the same thing happens with family stories. Someone recounts an event that happened in their life or in the life of a family member, emphasising one part and hiding another. […]
The ghosts and the legend of Azzurrina
Do you know how a legend is born? From a true story. The dynamics are similar to those of the well-known children’s game “telephone.” And the same thing happens with family stories. Someone recounts an event that happened in their life or in the life of a family member, emphasising one part and hiding another. […]
Family secrets
In Psychogenealogy, working with the genossociogram – a family tree annotated with dates and stories from at least three generations – allows us to write and narrate the family history, see the inconsistencies that may hide a secret, and recurring dates or names that show repetitions in family history, often indicating the presence of unresolved […]
The ‘unspoken’ and the ‘spoken’
When we look up the etymology of words, we piece together understandings and embroider hypotheses. The word CALAR (to be silent) possibly comes from the Latin callare, which means to lower one’s voice. In Portuguese, it means not to speak or to stop speaking. And the word FALAR (to speak) comes from the Latin fabulare, […]
Family allowances
Talvez possamos nos inspirar nas palavras do poeta Carlos Drummond de Andrade para tentar compreender algumas das questões familiares. Poema que revela os conflitos que atravessamos no processo de aceitação familiar e individuação. Fim da casa paterna “Vou dobrar-me à regra nova de viver ser outro que não eu, até agora musicalmente agasalhado na voz […]
The power of myth – from the symbolic to the diabolical
O INÍCIO “A história começa pela história. O ser humano nasce de uma história entre um homem e uma mulher. A gente conta histórias como uma tentativa de explicar um fato. Não é a verdade. É meia-verdade e meia-mentira.” We begin our lives and our stories through the imagination of others, the ideal. We are […]
Systemic psychogenealogy
EXPANDING CONCEPTS “E o que um dia eu vou saber, não sabendo, eu já sabia.” Milton H. Erickson PSYCHISM THE CONSCIOUS – What I know I know. THE UNCONSCIOUS – I know and I do not know that I know. Everything is contained in the unconscious. It is the great ocean that contains the primitive […]
Psychosexual development
Na Psicoterapia Sistêmica as fases do desenvolvimento Psicossexual são distribuídas de forma diferente da Psicanálise. In Freud’s school, it is as follows: oral phase/anal phase/phallic phase/latency period and genital phase. Systemic psychotherapy is based on Freud’s theory with some modifications: oral phase/anal phase/phallic phase and restart in pre-adolescence of the oral phase/anal phase/phallic phase and […]
Types of relationships
RELATIONSHIP PREMISES The encounter between feeling and relationship: feeling is different from relationship. One can feel strong affection for a person and have great difficulty relating to them. Love in a positive sense. Partners integrate pleasure and value. It is a learning process of cohabitation. Relationships are a choice and a decision. Not a decree! […]
Types of likes
POSITIVE LOVE This type of love occurs when mutual affinity and acceptance prevail. According to the dictionary, affinity means: kinship between one spouse and the relatives of the other; conformity; relationship. In chemistry, it means: the tendency of bodies to unite. Playing with this word, affinity is: I am willing to accept you in what […]