ABSTRACT
As we have mentioned, the genosociogram is a kind of family tree drawn from memory, without researching information or documents, and annotated with important life events, including dates, links and emotional context or framework (sociometric links, marked with arrows or colored lines). The genosociogram is more than a simple family tree situating relationships. What is important is the way in which the author of that particular “phantasmal” tree perceives the different characters, their roles and the links connecting him or her to ascendants and collaterals. Often even the blanks, the family memory gaps, say much about what has been “erased from family memory,” quite like the silences on a therapist's couch.
