IJFS - Interdisciplinary Journal of Family Studies

How do we move beyond the feelings of betrayal in repeating female
patterns that have been handed down from the mother to the daughter without
incurring too much loneliness and feelings of inadequacy? The “guilty-feeling”
(Druetta, 2001) results because the woman who has been submissive by others’
expectations is now planning an independent life style and because of the betrayal
of “history of women” (Druetta, 2011; Hillman, 1983; Schtzenberger, 2006), she
feels guilty. During the psychodrama (Gasca, 2012) workshop, we propose a transgenerational
approach (Druetta, 2011) that will enable participants to free
themselves from the image of the omnipotent Big Mother in order to “meet” a true
mother as she truly is and love her in a different way, without the negative
influence of guilty-feelings in order to discover new ways of relating. The coming
out from dependence that exposes woman to sexual, emotional and reflective
violence is an indefeasible right for the still obscured female world (Barducci,
2006; Valcarenghi, 2003;).