ABSTRACT
The therapist from the Philadelphia school who broadened the trans-generational approach was the Hungarian-born psychoanalyst Ivan Boszormenyi-Nagy 1 . Marking a clear separation from the Palo Alto school, Boszormenyi-Nagy considered that the relational bond holds much more significance than transgenerational communication models, and these relationships have to take into consideration justice and fairness within the family. Through them, our ancestors pass life — their life — on to us, and we then hand it down to our own descendants. In his practice, Boszormenyi-Nagy 2 had his clients speak at length about their lives, because for him, the goal and the force of a therapeutic intervention lies in reconstructing the ethics at work in transgenerational relations.
