Citation

Katz M, Lo Piccolo G, Bourguignon M. Bull. Psychol. (Paris) 2019; 72(2): 97-113.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019, Universite de Paris. Groupe D Etudes de Psychologie)

DOI

10.3917/bupsy.560.0097

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

The free realization of a family tree presents a form of useful projective mediation within the field of psychic transmission. Unlike genograms, it enables clinical researchers to explore the subjective representation of family connections as well as the content of the primal fantasy. Following a brief review of the analytical frameworks available, we present a detailed qualitative analytical framework developed from data drawn from a body of research on the subject of mass violence. A clinical illustration of a 90-year-old man deported for his Jewishness as a teenager shows the interest of rigorous analysis tied to the major operators of psychic life. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved)

Keywords

violence; Family; Violence; Mediation; mediation; Projective Techniques; family connections; family tree