In this book, Anne Ancelin Schutzenberger draws on over 20 years of experience as a therapist and analyst to explain and illustrate her unique psychogenealogical approach to psychotherapy. List of figures x(1) Preface: the living past, or grandfather's parrot xi(2) Acknowledgements xiii PART I The transgenerational approach 3(92) 1 A genealogy of transgenerational therapy: from the unconscious to the genosociogram 3(10) 2 Family therapy and the genogram/genosociogram 13(4) 3 Invisible loyalties 17(9) 4 Psychosomatic/somatopsychic: the mind-body connection 26(18) 5 The crypt and the phantom 44(5) 6 Origin and death 49(9) 7 The genosociogram and the anniversary syndrome: my research 58(12) 8 How to build your genosociogram 70(13) 9 My transgenerational clinical practice 83(12) PART II Case studies with simplified genosociograms 95(52) 10 Anniversary syndrome and invisible family loyalty 95(14) Charles: anniversary syndrome and invisible loyalty 95(3) Mark: family repetition of accidents 98(4) Jacqueline: the Armenian genocide 102(3) Valerie and Roger: can you inherit car accidents? 105(4) 11 Family configuration and the double anniversary syndrome 109(12) Vulnerability and anniversary stress 109(1) Two brothers, one survivor 110(1) Lucien: genealogical incest 111(2) Mrs Andrew 113(2) The Martin-Leroux family: triple genealogical incest 115(1) Two Mrs Browns: unresolved genealogical incest 115(4) Continuing the spiral of relations by marriage 119(1) The reconstituted family 120(1) 12 Legacy and family structure 121(18) The Mortelacs: child deaths over several generations 121(2) Predictions and maledictions in history 123(1) The effects of strong words 124(1) Delenda -- a father's anger and a child's sex 124(1) The priest: strong words misunderstood 125(4) Van Gogh, Dali and Freud: replacement child and repairing child 129(3) Cendrine and a few others: marking the anniversary 132(2) Four other examples 134(2) Noelle: conflict of habit and food identity 136(3) 13 Conclusion: the human canopy 139(8) Appendix 1: Definition of the crypt and the phantom 147(3) Appendix 2: Josephine Hilgard's statistical research 150(6) Appendix 3: On the souls of women 156(1) Appendix 4: An example of substitution incest 157(2) Appendix 5: I remember: stigmata of family memories 159(1) Appendix 6: Trauma of the wind of the cannonball 160(2) Appendix 7: Incest and second-type incest 162(1) Appendix 8: The anniversary syndrome 163(2) Appendix 9: Two case studies of the anniversary syndrome 165(3) Appendix 10: A few historical dates 168(3) Notes 171(10) Bibliography 181(16) Index 197