“Ancestor Syndrome”

Author: Anne Anseline Schutzenberger

Characteristics: softcover, 254 pp.

We are all links in the chain of generations, and sometimes we have to, to our own surprise, “pay the debts” of the past of our ancestors. This kind of “invisible devotion to family” pushes us to unconsciously repeat pleasant situations or sad events. We are less free than we think, but we have the opportunity to win our freedom and avoid fatal repetitions in our family history by understanding the complex intricacies in our own family.< br>
This book went through 15 editions in France. It is the result of twenty years of scientific activity and clinical practice of Anne Anseline Schutzenberger. The cases that she cites, in terms of drama, “emotional degree” and mystery, surpass the wildest fantasies of the authors of Gothic novels. Sometimes they shock, sometimes they pierce with acute pain and always remind us that each of us is part of a common history for all and even the most distant events are much closer to an individual person than one might imagine…