Conclusion This paper is an application of a theorical and clinical study about fields of intentionality and systemic that Milton Corrêa and myself are developing since 1999 (some of these publications are shown in the Bibliography). In this presentation, a theory to family system work is based on David Boadella’s Biosynthesis and on Bert Hellinger’s family constellation and shows that both methodologies can be integrated and applied in the psychotherapeutic clinic using a theory of intentionality considered not only as an abstract concept but also as a reality in itself acting like a field of intentionality. This theory offers us a base from which we can understand and work with family constellation using the fields in Biosynthesis and otherhand we can also verify through the motor fields what they can evoke in terms of family relations by means of the set up of these constellations. This constitutes the originality of this work to which we invite Biosynthesis and other psychotherapists to make their own experiences. The client is multidimensional therefore we have through this modality the possibility to have access to him just as much through the motor fields as through the field of relationship. I’d like to honor the creators of these two methologies bringing some of their own words: “In Biosynthesis constellations we work with the 4th field in the context of system of seven life fields, and not only with family system. We work with client centred mode and not with leading therapist approach. As we are trained in body language we use body signals to develop our work. The client is participant even during the time he is out observing his own constellation. New sentences are evoked by the client out of insight and context and not given by the therapist. Here we invite the client to understand his own process and are careful with dogmatic pronouncements. We understand that forgiveness can ripens as part of emotional maturation as this cannot be demanded by therapeutic ethos as in some other forms of psychotherapy. We are open to both positive and negative family influences and don’t have closed attitude of over respect for parents ”2 . “We participate in a soul rather than having a soul. This helps us to understand what happens in a family, e.g. that a family has a common conscience which to a great extent, is unconscious yet can be observed by the effects it has on all the family members. Furthermore there are several layers of intentionality operating in a 2 David Boadella, personal communication with Milton Corrêa and Esther Frankel commeting their new theorical and clinical approach, March 2004. 3 Bert Hellinger, personal communication with Esther Frankel, January 1999. family. More on the surface operates an intention that causes dysfunction and illness in a family, e.g. the urge to pay for something good by something bad. On a deeper level another soul seems to be operating. It shows up when the therapist withdraws from his own intentions and fears and proceeds only phenomenologically. When, for instance, two people are set up to represent the patient and death, the representants without the intervention of the therapist are suddenly caught by an irresistible movement that carries them to a solution they cannot plan. This solution is experienced by the client as deeply satisfying. The soul operating here I call “the greater soul” for lack of a better name. So in therapy the decisive step is to help the patient to move out of the realm of the family soul and the family conscience into the realm of the greater soul. This demands of the therapist that he stays in contact with this soul and allows himself to be guided by it”³. Bibliography Boadella, David, The Tree of Man and Fundamental Dimensions of Biosynthesis, Energy&Character,Vol 29, n° 1, June 1998a. Boadella, David, Streaming, Rapport and Inner Touching- The Seven Legacies of Mesmerism, Energy&Character, Vol 29, n°2, December, 1998b. Boadella, David, Shape Flow and Postures of the Soul. The Biosynthesis Concept of Motoric Fields, Energy&Character, Vol 30, n°2, April 2000. Boadella, S. Silvia & Boadella David, Biosynthesis, in Pritz, Alfred (ed.), Globalized Psychotherapy, Facultas Universitäsverlag, Vienna, 2000. Corrêa, Milton & Frankel, Esther, Embodied Intentionality, Energy&Character, Vol 33, September, 2003. Corrêa, Milton, Dream Work in Biosynthesis, Enegy&Character, Vol 36, December 2007. Frankel, Esther & Corrêa, Milton, A Cognitive approach to Body Psychotherapy, Energy&Character Vol 30, n° 1, September, 1999. Hellinger, Bert, Love’s Hidden Symmetry, Zeig, Tucker&Co, 1998. Hellinger, Bert, Die Liebe des Geistes, Hellinger Publications, 2008. Profile of the author Esther Frankel (Born 1948) M.A., Psychotherapist, International Trainer in Biosynthesis. Producer and Managing Editor of Energy and Character (see Editorial Information). energy & character vol.37 may 2009 61
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