Psychogenealogist: Psychogenealogy practitioner training course

In other articles, we have talked about genealogy, Psychogenealogy, family loyalty and also liberating symbolic acts.

Here we will explain what a Psychogenealogy practitioner is and the way to be trained to become one.

Psychogenealogist: the definition

A psychogenealogist is a practitioner trained in Psychogenealogy.

Generally, he is a psychotherapist or psychopractitioner and gives support to his patient in the liberation of psychological issues related to his family history.

The Psychogenealogy training is fairly quick on the theory part because only a few weeks are needed to master the basic concepts.

The curse: its definition

The definition of the word “curse” found in the dictionary connects with the one of Psychogenealogy, a therapeutic method used in psychotherapy that we have been talking about for several days in this blog.

The definition is:

• “words of harm or injury wished upon someone”.

The dictionary even talks about a “prayer or invocation” intending to harm someone, which indicates that a curse is like a sentence for disgrace that seems to be coming from a superior power.

This power is for some people their destiny.

It is written and therefore it occurs.

But for others, this negative energy is passed from one generation to another until a descendant finds a way to banish this fate.

Family loyalty or fidelity?

In fact, depending on the trends of Psychogenealogy, it is possible to use both terminologies, that is to say:

• family fidelity
• or family loyalty.

That's because both cover the same idea, the same concept inspired from systemic therapy that analyzes the link between two people or between a person and a group.

Thanks to this analysis, we can reveal wether the link is desired or endured.

But whether this link is accepted or imposed, it is necessary to let go of a “toxic” link not to have to bear its price and above all to avoid that future generations carry its burden (which can be very heavy and have dramatic consequences).

Indeed, the family loyalty can get transmitted from generation to generation.

Genosociogram: its definition

The genosociogram is a genealogical tree of a certain type.

It isn't used as a “simple” family lineage outline as it is the case in genealogy, but rather it is used in the framework of personal development and therapeutic work.

Formed with at least five generations (or even seven or ten), the genosociogram indicates in a visual way the important moments in the life of a family.

These moments are sometimes very positive, but they can also be negative and responsible for many distresses such as personality troubles that can generate internal or external conflicts with:

• family members,
• neighbors,
• colleagues,
• friends,
• etc.