title: Transgenerational damnation of divorce.
abstract: In this work transgenerational transmission is defined with emphasis on transgenerational transmission of divorce. Sometimes, divorces are like family damnation repeating in the family tree of one family. Decisive factors for that, according to professionals, are adoption of a model of parenthood behaviour or unconscious transmission of the representation of the family self that children manifest in their mature age. This work presents a case of a seven years old girl Maria in the system of transgenerational transmission divorce of the marriage of her parents. Maria suffered from symptoms of school phobia and in this symptoms lies the "hidden" wish of her mother for divorce as transgenerational representation of family self of her primary family, which conditioned generational compulsion of repetition through the female line. Application of psychodynamic oriented psychotherapy in this case gave very good results.
authors.affiliation: Psychiatric hospital for children and adolescents, Kukuljevićeva 11, 10 000 Zagreb, Croatia.
authors.forename: Marijana
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Marangunić