ABSTRACT
As stated in the introduction, relational family therapy is an innovative psychoorganic model that is based on three basic levels of experiencing: systemic, interpersonal, and intrapsychic. These levels are further divided into cognitivemental and somatic parts. Because the family is an organic psychosocial unit and each individual within it is an organic psychological entity, combined they form an organic and social family system. These three levels are based on fi ve dynamic principles: projective and introjective identifi cation, repetition compulsion, core affect, affective psychic construct, and affect regulation, which fundamentally constitute the innovative psycho-organic paradigm. The relational family model is founded on the premise that recurrent patterns of relationships in the human experience-early childhood experiences, physical sensations, and especially the core affects that they generate-are constantly recreated at all three levels of experiencing.
