|  | Bert Hellinger
Gunthard Weber
Hunter BeaumontLove's Hidden Symmetry
What Makes Love Work in Relationships
Translated from the German by Hunter Beaumont
352 p., 20 Illus., Hardcover, 1998
€ 44.90
ISBN 978-1-891944-00-0
Original Title: Zweierlei Glueck
Love's Hidden Symmetry is a book to be read slowly and then to be read again and again. Here is an opportunity to discover the work of Bert Hellinger, whose generative approach to intervening in systems has already reached across Europe into the hearts and minds of a diverse therapeutic community.
A lively blend of narrative, storytelling, transcript material, and poetic imagery is invoked to describe, and to demonstrate, what Hellinger calls "the orders of love" and how disturbances in the orders of love create a legacy that must bei reckoned with for generations to come. But these deeply embedded forces in the family system can be harnessed for healing once they are acknowledged, respected, and gently redirected.
Hellinger's basic tool for helping family members restore balance is the use of family constellations. Hellinger, along with coauthors Gunthard Weber and Hunter Beaumont, clarifies how this method can be refined and expanded to galvanize the energy of everyone involved toward a greater sense of wellbeing. The transcripts included in the book help to capture the extraordinary potential pf working appropriately with family constellations.
The profound suffering of many of these individuals is more than matched by the opportunity for peace that is revealed in the therapeutic work.
|  | Bert Hellinger
Bert Hellinger is probably Europe's most innovative and provocative psychotherapist and a best-selling psychotherapy author. A former priest and a missionary in South Africa for 16 years, as well as an educator, a psychoanalyst, body therapist, group dynamic therapist, and family therapist, he brings a lifetime of experience and wisdom to his work. The family constellations, which have become the hallmark of Hellinger's approach, as well as his observations about systemic entanglement and resolution, have touched the lives of thousands of people and have changed how many helping professionals carry out their own work.
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|  | Gunthard Weber
Gunthard Weber, M.D., psychiatrist and systemic family therapist, has been affiliated for many years with the Department for Family Therapy at the University of Heidelberg, Germany. He was a cofounder of both the Heidelberg Institute for Systemic Research and the International Association for Systemic Therapy, and, more recently, of the Carl Auer Publishing Company. With more than 70 articles in the field of systemic therapy to his credit, he is also the author, coauthor, or editor of several books, including the first book about Hellinger's work with family constellations, Zweierlei Glueck (in German).
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|  | Hunter Beaumont
Hunter Beaumont, Ph.D., graduate of the University of California at Los Angeles and the School of Theology at Claremont, began his psychotherapeutic career at the Gestalt Therapy Institute of Los Angeles, where he served as president and as a member of the training faculty. A licensed clinical psychologist, in 1980, he accepted a guest professorship in clinical psychology at Ludwig-Maximilian's University in Munich, Germany, teaching graduate courses in Gestalt Therapy and Object Relations Theory. From his base in Munich, in addition to training and supervising psychotherapists, he has developed an integrated, interdisciplinary approach to treating osychosomatic illnesses and relationship issues. He became interested in the work of Bert Hellinger in 1990 and has been collaborating with him since 1993. His contributions have been instrumental in introducing Hellinger to a worldwide audience.
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