Family Constellations Therapy...

EverEvolving

Hi, I’m wondering if any of you have heard of a treatment known as ‘Family Constellations’.

Today my boyfriend attended an occupational therapy session he was hoping would do some good and help him get back in the swing of things following a pretty rough time of it. He thought it may be some CBT or something similar. What he got was this new therapy called Family Constellations.

I don’t know a huge amount about it as I've only really heard about it today but basically it’s about finding your place in the family and where you should fit. They reckon there is a morphic field in which generations’ of your families problems exist and still affect you today. Not the obvious ‘my dad was an alco so I grew up afraid of him’ stuff where you know there will be some after affects, but more ‘your great grandaunt committed suicide and the morphic field still affects you’.

It sounds to me like a massive crock of nonsense and I'm quite mad that they think this should be given to someone suffering with a psychiatric illness.

Have any of you ever heard of this? How would I go about complaining to the HSE about it?

Thank you for any info you can give me.

JuliusCaesar

What on earth is a "morphic field"?

I'd be asking whether the therapy is evidence-based. If not, forget about it.


Have a read through some of the stickies where you might find some relevant information.

dar100

JuliusCaesar wrote: »

What on earth is a "morphic field"?

I'd be asking whether the therapy is evidence-based. If not, forget about it.


Have a read through some of the stickies where you might find some relevant information.

It's not evidenced based because it can't really be measured, it's more of a phenomenological experience. That's not to say it does not produce results though.

I recall been part of a group in which this therapy was used many years ago, very experiential almost like psychodrama.

JuliusCaesar

EverEvolving wrote: »

Have any of you ever heard of this? How would I go about complaining to the HSE about it?

HSE complaints (and compliments) go to the Your Service, Your Say dept

JuliusCaesar

dar100 wrote: »

It's not evidenced based because it can't really be measured, it's more of a phenomenological experience. That's not to say it does not produce results though.

If it produces results, it can be measured.

dar100

I'm sure you can measure the therapeutic benefits to the individual quite easily. But some of these concepts are fairly fluffy to say the lest. I don't imagine the morphic field can be measured or empirically validated.