victims. And for this reason this work interested me a lot. A specific session was very important to me. The therapist asked me about my first family. I said: “I, my father, my mother and my sisters” – and he asked me to place puppets to represent all of them. And then the therapist helped me to see that my mother in this family system was placed as if she was one of my sisters, and then he asked me: “where is your mother looking” ? And I concluded that my mother did not look at us in the system I organized: “She was looking at her dead relatives”. And he asked me: “Can I bring the dead relatives to this room?“ I said: “You can.” And my dead family had an identity for the first time. I placed the dead of my mother, I placed the dead of my father. It was strange for me, because the only person whose grave I can visit of this generation is my grandfather, the father of my father. who died of a heart desease before I was born. But my grandmother, my uncles on my mother’s side were all killed in the gas chamber and therefore nobody knows what really happened to them. People who were lost in these circumstances, do not have a name, do not have any identity. Even though my father and my mother told me about these events, I received the story in fragments, and this marked my life. At this moment of the constellation I could organize, remember my family, name each one of them. It was a very touching healing ritual. My mother took me by the hand and presented me to each one of her family. I was very moved and cried a lot, and the therapist cried together with me. Maybe because he was German and felt guilt about all this tragedy, and he was doing this in order to come to terms with the truth. It was an impressive session. To my amazement when I phoned my mother after the session, to ask her the names of the people she lost, to know who the brothers and sisters were, and then she said to me: “what a coincidence at that same time somebody was interviewing me here in my house for a documentary about the Holocaust”. This research was done by the team of Steven Spielberg, that was interviewing survivors of the second war all over the world. And my mother had been interviewed by them on the same day I had my session. After I did this session in Germany, I participated in many meetings between Germans and Jews, between victims and aggressors, American Jews, German Jews, and we spent one week arguing about peace, internal peace – they were groups of dialogue, of conflict mediation. And what was curious is that at the same time, my mother and some Jews were invited by the mayor of a small town in Germany – where the survivors of Auschwitz went in foot after they had been freed - for one week of dialogues. It was an attempt to pay homage to the victims, and my mother accepted. This was very healing for her. My mother and the others survivors of Auschwitz went on foot to this city. Many died on the way. My mother survived because she got back her boots size 33, that only fit her foot. So she could complete the walk to this town, before going to Sweden with the others. I think it was important for her, to have the opportunity to revisit the same place, many years later, during another moment in her life. I believe that from all this dialogue that I was paticipanting in - and she too – that the contact between us was reestablished. This experience made me understand better and go deeper into my origins, as a daughter of a survivor of Auschwitz, to see how much this still marks my life, to touch deep and unconscious wounds and to give a place in my soul for the dear members of my family that I didn’t have the fortune to know, reorganizing my life, thus weaving teogether torn parts of my existence. After this personal statement, I want to show how professionnally I am integrating the family systemic approach to my work in Biosynthesis. As a somatic psychotherapist working in the clinical area for more than 30 years, I am aware how important it is to work with the relational field of my clients, that is, to integrate their family histories with individual psychotherapy. Biosynthesis as a multidimensional psychotherapy makes this integration possible. The human being is seen in his/her somatic, emotional, relational, cognitive and spiritual dimensions. These are fields of life and they can be present through characterological traps, body blockages and restricted spirituality; or through deep contact with the heart, expressive emotional life and balanced energy. In the first case we have the unfolding of a characterological intentionality and in the second, the unfolding of an essential intentionality. (Frankel, E. and Corrêa M., 1999). The client who searches for psychotherapy in general presents problems in more then one of these fields. How can we access them? How can we help the patient? An unblockage of the throat that happens through a sudden shout can liberate rotation movements in the body (motor field of rotation) recovering the capacity to play and to move spontaneously. In trauma situations, the body unblockage should occur through the change of the traumatic scene, giving the possibility to the client to run (motor field of activation) and cry. (field of communication and expression). One of our objectives in Biosynthesis is to reintroduce the person to the amplitude of his/her motor fields which is our vocabulary as primates, our unconscious body (Boadella, 2002). Through touch the psychotherapist can hear the mesenergy & character vol.37 may 2009 57
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