Transgenerational violence against women: Jungian psychodrama on the path to individuation

TitleTransgenerational violence against women: Jungian psychodrama on the path to individuation
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2012
AuthorsPerrotta L
JournalInterdisciplinary Journal of Family Studies
Volume17
Issue2
Pagination335-338
Date Published12/2012
PublisherPadova University Press
Place PublishedPadova, IT
ISSN Number2282-2011
KeywordsDreams, Individuation., psychodrama, Psychogenealogy, Transgenerational
Abstract

Women with violent transgenerational histories tend to repeat
dysfunctional patterns in their emotional life. This paper discusses the case of Irina
and how Jungian Psychodrama helped her work through her trauma, remove her
fear of mental illness and free herself from a painful and unacceptable past. The
objective of Jungian Psychodrama is therapeutic: transgenerational themes and
dreams are analysed to bring conscious and unconscious elements of the psyche
into balance and provide relief and meaning to psychological suffering. Jungian
psychodrama is healing. The experience of emotional and cognitive restructuring
facilitates a dialectical discourse between identification and individuation from
transgenerational mandates of female passivity, psychological paralysis and
learned helplessness and allows disempowered women to become authentic
protagonists of their life.

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