Symbiotic trauma and symbiotic entanglement - how trauma gets transferred from one generation to the other

Evidence from Psychotherapy shows that trauma gets transferred mainly via the bonding process between mother and child. A mother suffering from trauma becomes the source for a symbiotic trauma for her child in one way or another – of course mothers don’t want to do, but the unconscious mechanisms to cope with a traumatic experience involuntarily lead to great difficulties in the mother-child-interaction especially the lack of mothers to be emotional available for their children. Many types of mental illnesses can be explained by the symbiotic entanglement between mother and child on the base of trauma.

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The transgenerational effects of trauma – how constellation work can help to understand and to step out
The constellation method can help to make transgenerational psychological effects visible that result form trauma. It clearly shows how in bonding processes the feelings of the one person become the feelings of the another. If you don’t know and understand that many terrible feelings that are inside you in the end not really are your own feelings but result from your mother’s or grandmother’s or even great-grandmothers trauma experiences than maybe you are struggling all your lifetime to copy with them with no success. So one very important challenge for psychotherapy is to find new ways out from the symbiotic entanglement with the trauma feelings of our ancestors. With the type of constellation work, “the constellation of the intention”, I have created a new tool to cope with the challenges of a symbiotic trauma step by step.