Love's Hierarchy -- Case Studies in Family System Constellation

Author: (German) Hellinger
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Publish Date: 2005-10-21
Features: Hellinger believes that a powerful systemic dynamic guides each member living within the system, driven by the connections between multi-generational family members and governed by the primal need for balance. Our emotional tendencies may lead to seemingly irrational behaviors in pursuit of systemic equilibrium. "The Order of Love" reveals a constant, iron order that sustains this love. · A classic work on family system constellation · Highly impactful live sessions · A manual for modern psychological counseling
This book explores the orders within human relationships, which are often already arranged by love. Only when we understand these orders can love succeed. We are often confused by blind, ununderstood love and fail to recognize these orders. However, when true love allows us to recognize and respect these orders, our desires can be fulfilled. Love radiates a sense of peace and healing for both ourselves and those we touch. This book serves as a multi-faceted teaching tool: First, it selects and records therapy sessions without modification, allowing readers to experience the live setting and gain inspiration for resolving their own dilemmas or mental illnesses, finding a path to solutions. Second, it demonstrates and explains key methods of family therapy, particularly through family system constellation, which reveals entanglements and solutions while re-establishing connections with absent parents or healing the fear, destruction caused by early separation and loss. Third, it enables those seeking knowledge to experience firsthand that solution-oriented and therapeutic insights can be gained through focused "seeing," as if lightning flashes through darkness (phenomenological psychotherapy).
About the Author: Bert Hellinger, Hellinger's life is quite legendary. He was a Catholic priest in his youth and lived in the Zulu region of Africa for 20 years before undergoing training in psychoanalysis, Gestalt therapy, primal therapy, and transactional analysis. He discovered that multiple cases across generations and involving other family members led to the development of new insights and techniques in "family system constellation." Hellinger's family system constellation is a deep healing method that has gained high international recognition. His dozens of books are extremely popular in Germany and have been translated into multiple languages worldwide. He has been invited to guide workshops and seminars in countries worldwide, teaching countless students, including university professors, doctors, counselors, social workers, business consultants, and growth group facilitators. Many share his insights globally. Hellinger's seminal work, Love's Hidden Symmetry (Chinese title: Who Am I Home), was published by World Publishing House in October 2003.
Zhou Dingwen, who introduced Hellinger's therapeutic perspectives to the Chinese-speaking world, is Taiwan's first Hellinger-certified "family system constellation" facilitator and founder of the Hellinger Institute. He has hosted numerous Hellinger workshops and seminars, reviewed and translated Hellinger's Chinese works, and served as the initiator and chair of the inaugural World Chinese Family System Constellation Conference in 2006.
Huo Baolian was born in Hong Kong in 1959 and graduated from a church college with a sociology degree in the 1980s. She later worked in correctional services. In 1986, she moved to Germany, where she studied social work at the University of Essen and obtained a European-recognized qualification. Currently, she works in family services and conducts intercultural communication training courses. She has completed two years of Hellinger family and organizational system constellation work in Germany.