Systemic Intervention in Biosynthesis: how to work with relational field with families by Esther Frankel T he motivation to write this work is old and comes from a phrase that a colleague from my training program in Biosynthesis in the eighties said to me: “Esther, the war is over”. For me and many people who belong to the second generation of survivors of the Holocaust or other types of genocide this is not like that. We must many generations. We need to take care of the wounded souls of the children when the souls of their families were broken, wounded, destroyed. Some years ago I was working in Japan and I went My Grandparents, My Parents, and I (Family Tree), Frida Kahlo, 1936 very often to Germany, because I felt that it was there that I had to search for the origins of my problems. In Germany I found that my generation, second, or third generation of the victims after the war, suffers as much as the children of the aggressors. The Germans of my age are affected as much as the Jews of my generation, full of blame, illnes and problems. And on one of these trips to Germany I did my first systemic session. After years of Analytical and Reichian psychotherapy, there was something I could not reach and this was my relation with the dead that are so present in my life. A systemic work is a family psychotherapy that says that it is not the individual who is sick but the entire system. This specific work was developed in Germany by Bert Hellinger because of the consequences of the second war. Germans kept in secret what happened during the war and these families started to fall ill. Illnes, tragedies, and serious accidents marked these families painfully. The elaboration of these secrets through the work with family constellations showed a link between the destiny of the aggressors and their 56 Esther Frankel Systemic Intervention in Biosynthesis: how to work with relational field with families treat this subject transgenerationally because these residues remain alive for
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