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Sue Walrond-Skinner: Transgenerational family therapy musings

"Transgenerational family therapy is one approach to helping families remember, forgive and harvest their past. I cannot myself conceive of working with a family without using some of the potent tools that have emerged from this tradition, most notably, I suppose, the genogram. No, it's not sexy or trendy, but it is potent."

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Margaret Robinson: Transgenerational family therapy: a personal response

"During my professional life, I have been privileged to be caught up in the birth of a number of apparently different methods of intervention which involve dialogue between helper and helpee. These are now known as psychoanalytic psychotherapy, family therapy and mediation. It seems to me that, in their early stages, they each over-emphasised the difference between the new method of intervention and what had gone before."

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Rosemary Whiffen: Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose

"It is so important that new generations should constantly embrace new ideas and make them relevant to the present day. I have been fascinated to follow the theories of postmodernism, narrative , social constructionism and others but I am often taken aback when I come to read the case examples. There seems to be so much that is familiar in the stories of the families, in the work between the clients and therapists and in the outcome. There seem to be so many echoes of a familiar history, a familiar identity. Is this perhaps an indication as to why grandparents won't altogether go out with the bath water?"

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Janet Forster, Mareen Gillman, Denise Gipson, Paul Jackson, Alex Reed, John Wheeler and Marie Wray: On using genograms in therapy and training contexts

"I suppose it goes back to where we started from - how we revisit genograms in a different way so that we don't impose a blueprint. If you ask a question about grandparents, for instance, people don't feel that they're somehow deviant because they don't know about their grandparents. There are family systems where people don't know about their fathers, never mind their grandparents."

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Graham Bryce: Educating models and supermodels

"The curriculum for a family therapy course points to the choice-making which goes on around learner-teacher relationships: some issues, ideas and thinkers are invited to inhabit the foreground while others are left on the shelf. This article reflects on the development of family therapy training within the Scottish Institute of Human Relations."

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Liz Burns: The past in the present - two contemporary novels

"In some sense, all literature is about intergenerational communication: passing wisdom and experience from one generation to the next and shaping it to make space for the creation of something new."

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Prakash Parikh: Commonalities transmitted by Indian families over generations

"Family ethnicity should be of interest to all family therapists because cultural norms and values prescribe the rules by which families operate including how family members identify, define and attempt to solve their problems and how they seek help. Therapists who appreciate the cultural relativity of family life are in a position to intervene more effectively."

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Johan Gouws: Transgenerational family therapy in an African context

"African cosmology is a way of feeling, thinking, seeing, hearing, speaking, smelling, tasting, touching, knowing, comprehending, perceiving, deciding, doing, as well as sensing and existentialising imperceptible realities...Institutions of marriage, family life and generations go hand in hand with the formation of the whole universe and eveything that is in it and part of it."

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Katy Damaskinidou: Transgenerational family therapy and culture

""The transgenerational passage of family myths, secrets, beliefs, behaviours, rituals and whatever else constitutes the family culture holds a fascination for the therapist."

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Chris Evans and Sue Stewart-Smith: Looking backwards, looking forward

"We may almost have a full human genome sequence but who did what with whom, where and why remain key stories. These are stories that define families, open or close options and cause or abate pain. The job of therapists is to work with these stories, these patterns."

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