VISUALIZATION OF THE FAMILY SYSTEM: B. HELLINGER’S METHOD IN THE CONTEXT OF A SCIENTIFIC PARADIGM
DOI: 10.23951/2312-7899-2017-1-86-103
According to B. Hellinger, the method of family constellations is being analyzed through the prism of natural-science concepts. It was the first time B. Hellinger’s concepts were systematized and represented and thereafter accepted by the academic science. The object and the subject of the psychological correction were selected, the methodological basis of the method was described, methods, target audience, indications and contraindications to the application of the method, equipment and materials, the peculiarities of the method were described. The family was analyzed in the function of systematic education, the psychological laws that are active in family systems were described. Difficulties and conditions that limit the use of the method were defined. The method’s modifications were highlighted. There was given a detailed, step-by-step description of the classical systematic family constellation scheme introduced by B. Hellinger. The author’s view on the issues under the investigation is also suggested. The importance of B. Hellinger’s method as a unique tool of visualizing the structure of the genus and family is highlighted. Author’s graphic images (charts) that vividly illustrate the family system of a client, the psychological laws of family systems, the sequence of phases of placement client’s family system were designed as a result of the analysis of literary sources. Information that is given in the present article complements the existing theoretical principals and analysis of empirical experience of classical systematic family constellations suggested B. Hellinger. According to the data of the conducted research the following conclusions were made. The method of «Systematic family constellations» proposed by B. A. Hellinger is flexible and specific. High capacity correction of the method allows you to recommend it for use in practical psychology. Multiaspectual method of B. A. Hellinger is a unique instrument that helps to visualize the structure of the genus and the family, to demonstrate the differences between hierarchical, chaotic and harmonious family systems models. Method of systematic family constellations can provide psychological assistance in areas related to tribal, family and parent-children relationships. Constellations conducted within the B. A. Helinger’s method create conditions that are good for conflict resolutions, understanding and optimization of the life scenario, development of the personality. The psychological mechanism that ensures the effectiveness of the system of family constellations is presented as expansion of human knowledge about its relationship with the world around him and the subsequent transformation of his own personality which results in the change of the objectively existing reality.
Keywords: psychological training, methodology, system, structure, element, B. Hellinger, family, genus, constellation, visual perception, visualization, systematic approach, phenomenological approach
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Issue: 1, 2017
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