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What determines invisible loyalty to an ancestor we have never met and the transgenerational repetition of painful events? In her pioneering work on psychogenealogy, Anne Ancelin Schützenberger wrote that “as mere links in a chain of generations, we may have no choice in having the events and traumas experienced by our ancestors visited upon us in our own lifetime” (1998, p. 202). We repeat what we don’t repair. Transgenerational Psychodrama and Dance Movement Therapy are powerful therapeutic modalities for exploring the ways in which a person’s life may be influenced by their ancestors and the dysfunctional scripts they may unconsciously be repeating. This integrative method clarifies patterns of invisible loyalty in order to break the cycles of unconscious repetition, deal with unresolved legacies, and heal emotional wounds.
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Perrotta, L. Clarifying patterns of invisible loyalty. Z Psychodrama Soziom 21 (Suppl 1), 19–31 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11620-021-00644-7
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