Love's Hidden Symmetry: What Makes Love Work in Relationships - Softcover

Bert Hellinger; Gunthard Weber; Hunter Beaumont

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1934442364 ISBN 13: 9781934442364

Verlag: Zeig, Tucker & Theisen Inc, 1998

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Reseña del editor

Love's Hidden Symmetry is a book to be read slowly... and then to be read again and again. Here is an opportunity to discover the work of Bert Hellinger, whose generative approach to intervening in systems has already reached across Europe into the hearts and minds of a diverse therapeutic community. A lively blend of narrative, storytelling, transcript material, and poetic imagery is invoked to describe, and to demonstrate, what Hellinger calls 'the orders of love' and how disturbances in the orders of love create a legacy that must be reckoned with for generations to come. But these deeply embedded forces in the family system can be harnessed for healing once they are acknowledged, respected, and gently redirected. Hellinger's basic tool for helping family members restore balance is the use of family constellations. Hellinger, along with coauthors Gunthard Weber and Hunter Beaumont, clarifies how this method can be refined and expanded to galvanize the energy of everyone involved toward a greater sense of well- being. The transcripts included in the book help to capture the extraordinary potential of working appropriately with family constellations. The profound suffering of many of these individuals is more than matched by the opportunity for peace that is revealed in the therapeutic work.

Biografía del autor

Bert Hellinger, described as the ultimate empiricist, Hellinger acknowledges several important influences on his life and work: his parents, whose faith immunized him against accepting Hitler's National Socialism; his 25 years as a priest, particularly as a missionary to the Zulu; and his participation in interracial, ecumenical training in group dynamics led by Anglican clergy. After leaving the priesthood, he studied psychoanalysis, and eventually developed an interest in Gestalt Therapy, Primal Therapy, and Transactional Analysis. It was in Hellinger's later training in family therapy that he first encountered the family constellations that have become the hallmark of his therapeutic work - an approach to which he has added new levels of meaning and possibility. Hellinger is an immensely popular figure in Europe, whose best-selling books and videos have generated a spirited dialog among members of the international therapy community and have propelled him to the forefront of contemporary family therapy. Gunthard Weber, psychiatrist and systemic family therapist, Gunthard Weber, M.D., has been affiliated for many years with the Department for Family Therapy at the University of Heidelberg, Germany. He was a cofounder of both the Heidelberg Institute for Systemic Research and the International Association of Systemic Therapy, and, more recently, of the Carl Auer Publishing Company. With over 70 articles in the field of systemic therapy to his credit, he is also the author, coauthor, or editor of several books, including the first book about Hellinger's work with family constellations, Zweierlei Gluck (in German). Hunter Beaumont, a graduate of the University of California at Los Angeles and the School of Theology at Claremont, Calif., Hunter Beaumont, Ph.D., began his psychotherapeutic career at the Gestalt Therapy Institute of Los Angeles, where he served as president and as a member of the training faculty. A licensed clinical psychologist, in 1980, he accepted a guest professorship in clinical psychology at Ludwig-Macimillian's University in Munich, Germany, teaching graduate courses in Gestalt Therapy and Object Relations Theory. In addition to training and supervising psychotherapists, he has developed an integrated, interdisciplinary approach to treating psychosomatic illnesses and relationship issues. He became interested in the work of Bert Hellinger in 1990 and has been collaborating with him since 1993. His contributions have been instrumental in introducing Hellinger to a worldwide audience.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Zeig, Tucker & Theisen Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• ISBN 10: 1934442364
• ISBN 13: 9781934442364
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 348