Heráldica y psicologíaun acercamiento entre representaciones de la identidad familiar y personal

Abstract

In this article we understand psychology as an area of trans-disciplinary knowledge, sensitive to culture, that is and must be based not only on what people do, but also on what they say they do, and what they say led them to do that they did. We will develop some ideas related to the peculiar connection between emblematic-heraldry and family psychotherapy and its externalisation factors. This synergy can be observed especially: on the one hand, in the therapeutic use of elements such as family genograms, which do not only establish relationships (as would occur in genealogical trees) but they also and very especially indicate the affective and emotional bonds between the members of the family; and, on the other hand, in the design by the family, and with the psychologist's facilitation, of shields, mottos, sculptures, family drawings, etc., as active psychotherapeutic techniques within the con- text of a family therapy process.