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Tables of Contents for The Ancestor Syndrome
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of figures
x
1
Preface: the living past, or grandfather's parrot
xi
2
Acknowledgements
xiii
PART I The transgenerational approach
3
92
1 A genealogy of transgenerational therapy: from the unconscious to the genosociogram
3
10
2 Family therapy and the genogram/genosociogram
13
4
3 Invisible loyalties
17
9
4 Psychosomatic/somatopsychic: the mind-body connection
26
18
5 The crypt and the phantom
44
5
6 Origin and death
49
9
7 The genosociogram and the anniversary syndrome: my research
58
12
8 How to build your genosociogram
70
13
9 My transgenerational clinical practice
83
12
PART II Case studies with simplified genosociograms
95
52
10 Anniversary syndrome and invisible family loyalty
95
14
Charles: anniversary syndrome and invisible loyalty
95
3
Mark: family repetition of accidents
98
4
Jacqueline: the Armenian genocide
102
3
Valerie and Roger: can you "inherit" car accidents?
105
4
11 Family configuration and the double anniversary syndrome
109
12
Vulnerability and anniversary stress
109
1
Two brothers, one survivor
110
1
Lucien: genealogical incest
111
2
"Mrs Andrew"
113
2
The Martin-Leroux family: triple genealogical incest
115
1
Two Mrs Browns: unresolved genealogical incest
115
4
Continuing the spiral of relations by marriage
119
1
The reconstituted family
120
1
12 Legacy and family structure
121
18
The Mortelacs: child deaths over several generations
121
2
Predictions and maledictions in history
123
1
The effects of "strong words"
124
1
Delenda -- a father's anger and a child's sex
124
1
The priest: strong words misunderstood
125
4
Van Gogh, Dali and Freud: replacement child and repairing child
129
3
Cendrine and a few others: marking the anniversary
132
2
Four other examples
134
2
Noelle: conflict of habit and food identity
136
3
13 Conclusion: the human canopy
139
8
Appendix 1: Definition of the crypt and the phantom
147
3
Appendix 2: Josephine Hilgard's statistical research
150
6
Appendix 3: On the souls of women
156
1
Appendix 4: An example of substitution incest
157
2
Appendix 5: "I remember": stigmata of family memories
159
1
Appendix 6: Trauma of the "wind of the cannonball"
160
2
Appendix 7: Incest and second-type incest
162
1
Appendix 8: The anniversary syndrome
163
2
Appendix 9: Two case studies of the anniversary syndrome
165
3
Appendix 10: A few historical dates
168
3
Notes
171
10
Bibliography
181
16
Index
197