1. Intergenerational Family Therapy
Some of Freud’s students didn’t like emphasis on sex, focused on relationships
In early writings, mothers were often blamed for most if not all problems
Emphasis now is on finding a balance between closeness and autonomy

2. 2nd generation Freudians
Object relations (James Framo contemporary).

3. 2nd Generation Contextual (Ivan Boszormengi-Nagy):
Patterns are passed on from generation to generation through the ledgers we keep internally. Through this ledger we develop a sense of indebtedness or entitlement.

4. Murray Bowen
Two counterbalancing life forces- togetherness and individuality

6. Bowen’s Model Assumptions
Differentiation: 
Basic Model
Emotional Triangles:
Nuclear Family:
Undifferentiated Ego Mass:
 Emotional Cutoff:
Family Projection Process:
Sibling Position:
Societal Emotional Process

7. Interventions: Goal is to increase differentiation
Genogram
Therapy triangle
Relationship experiments
Coaching
I-position
Multiple family therapy
Displacement stories

8. Transitional Character
Definition: A person who in single generation changes the entire course of a lineage. This means they find a way to stop destructive patterns and create healthy and happy patterns of interaction. Research and theory indicates there are a number of things you can do to become a transitional character. Carlfred Broderick (1988) identified a number of these helps.

9. Helps for transitional characters
Deliberateness
Distinctive family rituals
Maintain emotional distance
Marry later than average
Read good self help books about marriage and family
Support groups
Seek higher education
Work to identify a “philosophy of life”