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Transgenerational solidarity: The expanding context of therapy and prevention

1986; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 14; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/01926188608250641

1521-0383

Ivan Boszormenyi‐Nagy,

Mental Health and Patient Involvement

Abstract This article searches for a common denominator for the requirements of that which therapy and prevention address in their broadest terms: 1) genuine criteria of autonomous individuation in the context of real relationships that have to be sorted out vis-a-vis random internal relations that inform the private epistemologies of each partner's idiosyncratic goals; 2) the dialogue of mutual self-definition anchored in the balance of inherent commitments to mutual self-validation through fair give and take—the basis of relational ethics, i.e., responsibility for consequences to others; 3) the systemic regulation of behavioral patterns of marriages, parent-child relationships, nuclear and extended families, and larger community networks; 4) an intrinsic tribunal of transgenerational solidarity as the basis of prevention and as the manifestation of human species survival, e.g., concern about environmental health; 5) negentropy as the “locomotive” of biological evolution and, via ethics of receiving thro...