Into the family and systemic therapy, the individual is never considered as an isolated element but, on the contrary, he is a part of a determined context of relations. That's just what will allow us to restore the bonds and the connections with difficult destinies in our family-system.

The family system is considered as a whole instead as an agglomerate of individuals. This allows us to elaborate a new approach capable to describe overindividual phenomena, together with the inner personal processes of each element of our tree.

The personal unconscious is strictly connected to our experiences as human beings in this life, in childhood in a crucial way; and we know for a fact that every kind of element that will be excluded from our conscience (repression) will tend to manifestate under the form of a symptom.

The fundamental intuition by Bert Hellinger, the discoverer of the Family Constellations, is that whenever a member of the family is excluded or forgotten because of a difficult destiny, this will have huge consequences upon the next generations to come until it won't be brought back to its proper place into the kernel of belonging of our family.

In a system the single individuality is not important per se but in function of something bigger, the sistem itself.

It seems that there are enormous forces involved, and they are beyond every limit of our comprehension.

Aside from what we traditionally mean as 'soul', seem to be a wider soul that unites the livings and deads or - better - a "familiar soul" that connect the living members to the dead ones.

Included into a family system there are:

    * chidren (aborted children included, dead born or prematurely dead)

    * parents and their brothers and sisters.
    * grandparents
    * great-grandparents
    * great-great-grandparents
    * more ancient ancestors
    * anyone who helped or sustained the family: previous partners of parents or grandparents, all those benefactors who in life or death brought some advantage or gain to the family.
    * victims of violence or homicide perpetrated by any member of the family.

Into the family and systemic therapy, the individual is never considered as an isolated element but, on the contrary, he is a part of a determined context of relations. That's just what will allow us to restore the bonds and the connections with difficult destinies in our family-system.

The genealogic tree, seen as a Familiar Soul, or Familiar Unconscious, is shaped by every kind of more or less dramatic experiences lived by its members; every person of the tree who would be eventually excluded will appear again under the form of suffer, or quite often, as a phisical symptom of a disease.

If a brother or a sister is killed or lost in war, if a child died in tender age or a woman dies during childbirth, an other member of the family in the next generations will tend to substitute unconsciously the excluded one and he will imitate his destiny expressing his emotions and symptoms, or will try to follow him into death.

If anyone in the past didn't take the responsability of a great guilt, a child will try later on to pay his dues, with his health, his happiness, his success in life.

Through staging family constellations, the hidden dynamics of the family are brought to light; the hidden tasks that force us to behave in a certain way and keep us tied to ouf family of origin; that dynamics that are the mark of our group of belonging.