I have also edited this article many years ago. I think there is a a
dispute resolution process when someone keeps "trolling" an entry. Maybe
someone has time to investigate that.
Cheers
Chris Walsh
On Thursday, 7 January 2016, Heiki Eesmaa heiki.eesmaa@xxxxxxxxx
[ConstellationTalk] <ConstellationTalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Guys,
anybody can edit the article. "Strategizing" here is ridiculous. Go and
make it better.
I see Dan Booth Cohen has edited the article in the distant past (2007).
all the best
Heiki
On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 4:38 PM, Harrison Snow teambuilder@xxxxxxx
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wrote:
The write up manages to be both negative and patronizing. There must be a
way to update it
and give a fair presentation of constellation work.
Thanks for mentioning it
Harrison Snow
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*Subject: *[ConstellationTalk] Read these 3 short paragraphs. Is this
HURTING us, hurting Family Constellation work??
When someone searches for Family constellation on the web (in English),
The number 1 page that comes up is Wikipedia.
So many of our clients get their information about Constellations here.
If Wikipedia's description is negatively written, does this hurt our
modality and our profession?
*First read Wikipedia's 3 paragraph description of Psychodrama, a close
cousin to Family Constellation work:*
*Psychodrama* is an action method, often used as a psychotherapy
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychotherapy>, in which clients use
spontaneous dramatization <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dramatization>, role
playing <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Role_playing> and dramatic
self-presentation <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-presentation> to
investigate and gain insight into their lives.[1]
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychodrama#cite_note-1> Developed by Jacob
L. Moreno <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_L._Moreno>, M.D.
(1889–1974) psychodrama includes elements of theater
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theater>, often conducted on a stage
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stage_%28theatre%29>, or a space that
serves as a stage area, where props
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theatrical_property> can be used. A
psychodrama therapy group, under the direction of a licensed
psychodramatist, reenacts real-life, past situations (or inner mental
processes), acting them out in present time. Participants then have the
opportunity to evaluate their behavior, reflect on how the past incident is
getting played out in the present and more deeply understand particular
situations in their lives.[2]
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychodrama#cite_note-kellerman-2>
Psychodrama offers a creative way for an individual or group to explore and
solve personal problems. It may be used in a variety of clinical
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinical_Psychology> and community-based
settings, and is most often utilized in a group scenario, in which each
person in the group can become therapeutic agents for one another's scenes.
Psychodrama is not, however, a form of group therapy
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_therapy>, and is instead an
individual psychotherapy that is executed from within a group. There are
"side-benifits" that the other group members may experience, as they make
relevant connections and insights to their own lives from the psychodrama
of another. A psychodrama is best conducted and produced by a person
trained in the method, called a psychodrama director
<https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Psychodrama_director&action=edit&redlink=1>
.[3] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychodrama#cite_note-pio-abreu-3>
In a session of psychodrama, one client of the group becomes the
protagonist <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protagonist>, and focuses on
a particular, personal, emotionally problematic situation to enact on
stage. A variety of scenes may be enacted, depicting, for example, memories
of specific happenings in the client's past, unfinished situations, inner
dramas, fantasies
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantasy_%28psychology%29>, dreams
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream>, preparations for future
risk-taking situations, or unrehearsed expressions of mental states in the
here and now.[2]
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychodrama#cite_note-kellerman-2> These
scenes either approximate real-life situations or are externalizations
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Externalization> of inner mental
processes. Other members of the group may become auxiliaries, and support
the protagonist by playing other significant roles
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Role> in the scene[2]
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychodrama#cite_note-kellerman-2> or may
step in, as a "double" who plays the role of the protagonist.
A core tenet of psychodrama is Moreno's theory of
"spontaneity-creativity".[4]
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychodrama#cite_note-schact-4> Moreno
believed that the best way for an individual to respond creatively to a
situation is through spontaneity, that is, through a readiness to
improvise <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Improvisation> and respond in
the moment.[5]
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychodrama#cite_note-blatner-5> By
encouraging an individual to address a problem in a creative way, reacting
spontaneously and based on impulse, they may begin to discover new
solutions to problems in their lives and learn new roles they can inhabit
within it.[4]
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychodrama#cite_note-schact-4> Moreno's
focus on spontaneous action within the psychodrama was developed in his
Theatre of Spontaneity, which he directed in Vienna in the early 1920s.
[6]
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychodrama#cite_note-Scheiffele-1997-6>
Disenchanted with the stagnancy he observed in conventional, scripted
theatre, he found himself interested in the spontaneity required in
improvisational work. He founded an improvisational troupe in the 1920s.
This work in the theatre impacted the development of his psychodramatic
theory.
*Now read the short Wikipedia 3 paragraph description of Family
Constellation work:*
*Family Constellations* is an alternative
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_medicine> therapeutic method
which draws on elements of family systems therapy, existential
phenomenology <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existential_phenomenology>
and Zulu <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zulu_people> attitudes to family.
[1] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_Constellations#cite_note-1> In
a single session, a Family Constellation supposedly attempts to reveal a
previously unrecognized systemic dynamic that spans multiple generations in
a given family and to resolve the deleterious effects of that dynamic by
encouraging the subject to accept the factual reality of the past.
Family Constellations diverges significantly from conventional forms of
cognitive <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_psychology>, behaviour
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behaviour_therapy> and psychodynamic
psychotherapy <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychodynamic_psychotherapy>.
The method has been described by physicists as quantum quackery
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_mysticism>, and its founder Bert
Hellinger <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bert_Hellinger> incorporates
the pseudoscientific <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudoscientific>
idea of morphic resonance
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morphic_resonance> into his explanation
of it. Positive outcomes from the therapy have been attributed to
conventional explanations such as suggestion
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suggestion> and empathy
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empathy>.[2]
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_Constellations#cite_note-carroll-2>
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_Constellations#cite_note-carroll-2>
Practitioners claim that present-day problems and difficulties may be
influenced by traumas suffered in previous generations of the family, even
if those affected now are unaware of the original event in the past. A
theoretical foundation for this concept is called *The Ancestor Syndrome*
in psychology.[3]
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_Constellations#cite_note-3>
Hellinger referred to the relation between present and past problems that
are not caused by direct personal experience as *Systemic entanglements,*
said to occur when unresolved trauma has afflicted a family through an
event such as murder, suicide, death of a mother in childbirth, early death
of a parent or sibling, war, natural disaster, emigration, or abuse.[4]
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_Constellations#cite_note-4> The
psychiatrist Iván Böszörményi-Nagy
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iv%C3%A1n_B%C3%B6sz%C3%B6rm%C3%A9nyi-Nagy>
referred to this phenomenon as *Invisible Loyalties*.
*Now, it may be just me, but I believe that Wikipedia's Family
Constellation description, as written, is negatively biased.*
Particularly these two points:
"In a single session, a Family Constellation *supposedly attempts to
reveal*"
"The method has been described by physicists as quantum quackery
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_mysticism>, and its founder Bert
Hellinger <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bert_Hellinger> incorporates
the pseudoscientific <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudoscientific>
idea of morphic resonance
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morphic_resonance> into his explanation
of it. Positive outcomes from the therapy have been attributed to
conventional explanations such as suggestion
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suggestion> and empathy"
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empathy>
I believe that this description, which is probably the NUMBER ONE ENGLISH
DESCRIPTOR IN THE ENTIRE WORLD, being negatively slanted, hurts us and
hurts our profession. Note, there is *nothing like this* in the
Psychodrama description.
What are your thoughts, Am I right? does this matter? If it does, should
we do something?
From Boulder Colorado, Jack Blackwell
Jack Blackwell (720) 458-5363
Connecting Spirit & Psychology ~ Creating profound insights and Healing
Family Constellation Workshops & Trainings, Holotropic Breathwork
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