Field Transference and Family Constellations

Transference and counter-transference in the therapeutic relationship is a well documented phenomena, that helps therapists and counsellors make sense of what goes on in the therapy room. It also, helps to understand what stops the client from having a more fulfilling life outside therapy.  

Family Constellations help us to observe, how therapist and client are in a relationship that has more then just transference issues that relate to primary scenarios between parent and child.
In fact, 'elements' from relationships that belong to a much wider field are transferred. This wider field is the client’s larger familial, trans-generational and archetypal field.

It is from this wider field that unresolved feelings, relationships and stories get transferred to the client's outer relationships, and thus create difficulties in the therapeutic relationship. This phenomenon is Field Transference. The transference of the client's larger field into his personal life and into the therapy room.

Family Constellations is a method that interacts with the wider field, and the larger system of the client. It works creatively with Field Transference in its many aspects and brings change to the issues that get stuck in the therapy room and in the client's life. It is a moving process that enriches clients and therapists

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