ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a new focused genogram that will help practitioners to explore and apply contextual therapy within the Intersystem Approach (IA). It suggests that the IA and Contextual theory share a crucial meta-perspective, joining justice issues with Attachment theory, by a focus on relational ethics. Relationship patterns of unfairness lead to insecure attachment bonds. While ruptures in attachment between parent and child are normative and occur frequently, the necessary counterbalance is their repair. In a theoretical parallel, destructive entitlements arise from injustices, just as insecure attachments are founded on attachment injuries and abuses. Transactional patterns within families that are fair and just will allow a fair set of Relational Ethics to be passed down to children, while injustices force destructive entitlement to pervade the family. Similarly, families with insecure or disorganized patterns, with low levels of trust and security, will be wrought with attachment injuries.
