2023-10-25 11:44:20
DECRYPTION – Whether it’s cancer, depression, a romantic breakup or a car accident… For psychogenealogists, there is no such thing as chance. Everything that happens to us is closely linked to our “transgenerational links”.
Accident, abandonment, suicide, alcoholism, rape… What if the cause of all our ills was to be found in the dramatic events experienced by our ancestors? This is what psychogenealogy claims, a neologism invented in the 1970s, a mixture of “psychology” and “genealogy”. According to this popular practice, our problems find their source in traumas suffered by our ancestors several generations away. These traumas are passed down from generation to generation without us being aware of it, via “scars” left on the genes. To break this curse, we would then have to delve into our family tree with the help of a therapist. Problem: this practice, which constantly seeks to appear scientific, does not in reality rest on any serious basis. For several years, it has even been monitored by Miviludes, the unit of the Ministry of the Interior responsible for combating abuses…
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