Original scientific paper
Genograms of Exile and Return Families in Croatia - A Medical Anthropological Approach
S. M. Špoljar-Vržina
Abstract
This article presents the most important results of an applied anthropological long-
-term study of the prolonged exile and return that many families are currently undergoing
in Croatia. The results are elaborated with a special reflection upon two important
overlapping issues concerning the methodological approach that was applied: firstly, it
discusses the crucial questions which motivated the search for a tool that will not distort
the experiences, reality and suffering of exile families; and secondly, it critically describes
the application of the genogram (a tool borrowed from systemic family therapy) in
the exile setting. This tool was not only useful in the clinical sense of psychotherapeutically
helping the families, but was also a very flexible part of the methodology orientated
towards evoking family history and providing valid knowledge about different
family and living circumstances.
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Hrčak ID:
17226
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Publication date:
16.12.2000.
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