A flow chart or diagram of a person’s family of origin and extended family — usually three generations although people often invest more time and energy and “go back” another two or three generations.
There are many symbols and distinctive markings people use and each practitioner usually develops his or her own style.
A GENOGRAM is PREDICTIVE but not DETERMINATIVE.
Getting required information from your family may be a challenge and an exercise in healing in itself.
Creating a Genogram is an on-going exercise and it will change as a family changes with births, deaths, marriages, and divorces.
People can and do “defy” the predictions that reveal themselves (addictions, unwanted patterns, cut-offs, fusions) in a Genogram but are unlikely to do so without a committed plan toward greater individual health.
Calm or chaos in one generation is likely to “flow through” the system.
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