We are all born into a family. If we are born, it means we have a mother and father. Regardless of what we call good or bad, our parents are the most important people to us. This blood bond also determines our belonging to a community, a nation, a country. Many characteristics of that lineage, transferred consciously or unconsciously from generation to generation, determine where we live, our language, our beliefs, our identity, the way we live life, and become a kind of destiny.
Our spiritual, emotional, social and even physical health, this It may be determined by our status in relationship networks and how at peace or entangled we are with them. This perspective is not actually a new perspective for psychology, because dozens of existing schools of psychology have looked at the impact of the family system and other systems to which we belong to certain degrees.
However, the "Family Constellations" that have been shaped in the last twenty years. In recent years, the approach called systemic syntax has taken this as the main center of the study. This method was shaped by the German psychologist-philosopher Bert Hellinger. Hellinger entered a religious school and became a priest to escape the Nazis before World War II. He was very impressed by the child-rearing methods of the African Zulu tribe, among whom he lived for many years as a missionary. When he returned to Germany, he examined many therapy schools, including psychodrama, psychoanalysis and family therapy, in the 1970s. Then he started to apply the approach he called systemic-phenomenological therapy. In recent years, there are many practitioners who have developed this work in different directions from Hellinger and brought new expansions.
In constellation work, the information that the representatives in the group bring to the field of knowing is essential. It is thought that the doors to the family spirit or inner world of the person to work are opened to the extent that he/she mentally and emotionally allows it. Representatives intuitively feel people, concepts, and inner voices of dead or living people they have never met, and transfer deep emotional processes to this area. While doing this, they are asked to put aside their own thoughts and judgments and focus only on the changes in their bodies. Pay special attention to the types of formations in which the representatives do not feel well. These often reveal systemic complexities unknown to the person doing the study (unresolved traumatic experiences that have become secrets in the family or recorded in the unconscious, such as the very early loss of a sibling or parent, people excluded from the family, migration, suicide, harassment, abortion, etc.). According to the family constellation school, if these lines of belonging and love, which manifest themselves in the system as anger, sadness and denial, are not recognized and opened; Such traumas are transmitted to the next generations and manifest as a physical or spiritual disorder.
The healing process or the solution of the problem takes place with new sequences and new sentences directed by the therapist, after the systemic sequence of the problem becomes clear. The work ends at the point where the person feels good or reaches the highest energy to solve the problem. A constellation study can vary between 10 minutes and 1 hour.
The constellation method, which was seen as a mysterious and spiritual work until a few years ago, has become scientifically explainable with some studies in recent years. According to research, the accuracy rate of this mechanism, which was explained by mirror neurons discovered by Italian scientists about 10 years ago, is at the level of 90%. German psychologist Franz Ruppert suggests that this phenomenon, which was initially interpreted as inexplicable and mysterious, became explained by John Bowlby's attachment theory. It is thought that babies record the information in the mother's body and mind through their emotional learning and attachment needs in the womb and during infancy. Ruppert's multigenerational psychotraumatology approach, which will be explained in detail in another article, overlaps with psychoanalysis's explanations such as unconscious transference, division, and denial.
People generally come to people they do not know in a group with the concern of whether they can reveal their private areas and problems. However, since the essence of both psychotherapy and family constellation is trust, love, unconditional acceptance and the orientation to seeing and accepting the truth, this environment of trust is achieved within minutes. At the end of the day in almost every group, the members of the group greet each other in a friendly and sincere manner, feeling as if they have known each other for years. Every person has a problem, they all have their own conditions, As it becomes obvious how superficial our knowledge is, the power of understanding and respecting the past becomes evident. An experience that will contribute to individual as well as social peace and tranquility is gained.
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