A backpack full of family

A backpack full of family

Family in the pastry of Rosa Rechtsteiner

It does not often happen that the books I read for HausHofKind are so much about me. It was the case with “Family in Luggage” by Rosa Rechtsteiner. This book is really blatant stuff, because I’ll bet you’ll only get up to half the reading before you experience a great deal of self-knowledge.

Rechtsteiner describes the therapy developed by her as genogram, which she combines with kinesiology. When people with seemingly unclear problems (test anxiety, cheating, job dissatisfaction, …) come into therapy, then they, together with the clients, their ancestors. It then looks at occupations, relationships and illnesses that parents, grandparents and great-grandparents had. Often astonishing parallels emerge, sometimes stark contrasts and often also a kind of work-up or a compensation to the deeds of long-dead family members.

There is, for example, the man who has been obsessed with history all his life, and who is very anxious to explain the Third Reich to students in his museum. The genogram shows that his grandfather was a fervent National Socialist and the grandson subconsciously tries to make up for this shame. By working through the therapy this unconscious guilt dissolves and the client can develop new professionally and make his life more free – which he finally does.

Many examples also revolve around people unconsciously sabotaging their own success – be it professionally or in terms of a happy partnership. On closer examination, this often shows that there is a long tradition of frugal employees or divorced marriages. Those affected then do everything they can to avoid endangering belonging to their own clan and rather fail to graduate rather than being the first woman in the family to have a degree. Of course always subconscious.

I am pretty sure that every reader will experience a great aha moment sooner or later. You probably do not have to look far to find connections with your own ancestors.

Nevertheless, “family in the luggage” is not a book for self-therapy. Although there are some exercises, but rather lead to my discovered a hot trail in one’s life. I think that it is rather a matter of Ms. Rechtsteiner to introduce this form of therapy and thus to show a further starting point for the solution of her problem. I say: she succeeded. Great reading recommendation!

The book Family in Luggage has been published by Patmos. It covers 176 pages and costs € 14.99. We thank the publisher for providing a free review copy.

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Lisa Figas

Lisa Figas is a mother of two small children and works part-time as a project manager. She talks about the experiences of family life and thinks about the society into which we integrate our offspring. In addition, Lisa is concerned with books around the topic of parenting and regularly writes reviews here on HausHofKind.

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