Bert Hellinger. Bert Hellinger Life[edit] Anton Hellinger was born into a Catholic family in Germany in 1925.
Hellinger states that his parents' "particular form of [Catholic] faith provided the entire family with immunity against believing the distortions of National Socialism. Systemic Constellations. Many people contributed to the development of the process; however, the German-born Bert Hellinger (b. 1925) is widely acknowledged as the founder of the process in its modern form.
His first book, published in English as Love's Hidden Symmetry,[3] became a best seller in Germany and brought Constellations to public awareness. The Systemic Constellation process is sanctioned by family therapy associations in Europe[4] and is being integrated by thousands of licensed practitioners worldwide.[5] The work is also beginning to become known in the United States.[6] The procedure described below represents a typical format.[7]
Family Constellations. Family Constellations is a therapeutic method which draws on elements of family systems therapy, existential phenomenology and Zulu attitudes to family.[1] In a single session, a Family Constellation attempts to reveal a previously unrecognized systemic dynamic that spans multiple generations in a given family and to resolve the deleterious effects of that dynamic by encouraging the subject to accept the factual reality of the past.
Family Constellations diverges significantly from conventional forms of cognitive, behaviour and psychodynamic psychotherapy. The method has been described as quantum quackery, and its founder Bert Hellinger incorporates the pseudoscientific idea of morphic resonance into his explanation of it. Positive outcomes from the therapy have been attributed to conventional explanations such as suggestion and empathy.[2] Conceptual basis[edit] The phenomenological lineage can be traced through philosophers Franz Brentano, Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger.