sages of the client’s muscles, what the muscles want to do, what they are ready for, and the intentional movement patterns underlying the neurotic organization of the body. For us the character can be seen as a distortion of motor fields patterns. In Biosynthesis all the organism can be worked from a part. The psychotherapist is trained to perceive the easiest field to begin the work with each client and how to help him/her to connect himself/herself with the other fields. David Boadella calls this a holistic, biospiritual and transomatic vision. This is the art to work with multidimensional patterns of intentionality. One of the questions that appear when we work in Biosynthesis or another body psychotherapy is when we verify that the individual psychosomatic approach is not enough for a deeper understanding of the client’s problems. We must also identify how his/her commitments, obligations in the family relational field are over several generations. Maybe the problem is linked to transgenerational family issues. For this purpose I adopted the method of family constellation linking it to the Biosynthesis fourth Life Field (D.Boadella & S.Boadella, 2000): the Relational Field, integrating it with the others six fields. It is a rich experience that has extended the spectrum of my psychotherapeutic work. Clinical example Sistemic work in a group Subject: A client Ana1 body sensations. At the same time I, as the therapist tried to understand what the place in this constellation and body expression of the elements meant. At this moment of the constellation Ana cannot see her mother, and her mother cannot see her daughter, because the heart is placed between them and in front of the mother. The shame is on the side, almost next to the heart and looking at the ground. Ana’s mother felt inhibited by the shame, and said that she cannot see her daughter it was as if the daughter were hiding from her. The heart was between Ana and her mother. It was a heart that felt frozen inside and a lot of heat outside and wanted to fall to the ground and hide. The heart could not look Ana’s mother in the eye. “I do not want to see anything”, says the heart. This first form of the intentional field of the family reveals a part that doesn’t pulsate. What happened to your mother? I asked Ana. My mother was a war refugee. Her father wanted a boy. Ana’s mother was not registered because she was a girl. She lived through the bombings of the war and had the sensation of horror and fear for all her family to die in the war. This subject is her shame. Her mother idealized her father. The shame says: I belong to her (she points to Ana’s presents problems with her mother. Her mother was lucky to survive a bombing in the Spanish Civil War. She was cold hearted towards Ana, her daughter. Ana’s father said to her: your mother is a child. You’re my princess. Ana’s mother was missing the support of her own mother. The client Ana, brings the situations: shame and war that was a theme in her mother’s life, the hatred she had for her mother and a sensation of depression in her heart. This feeling closed her heart. The intentional elements I asked to be placed in the constellation were: shame, heart, the mother of Ana, and Ana. For each one of these elements Ana chose a representative of the group and I asked her to place the elements, in relation to each others. Ana moves the figures to where she wants, by the shoulders, very slowly. When she finishes placing these elements (figure 1) we have the first form of field of the family intentionality . The next step is to ask what the meaning of this form is. I asked the representatives of the elements to express themselves, about their feelings, thoughts, desires and 1 This session was real and Ana is a fictitious name. Figure 1 58 Esther Frankel Systemic Intervention in Biosynthesis: how to work with relational field with families
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