When I was completing my Master’s program in Psychology at the University of Santa Monica, California after having completed a course on John Bradshaw’s genogram, which is like a detailed family tree (book, Family Secrets) we were asked to write a creative autobiography, with text, photos, and anything else we wanted to include in it.
Vlad’s creation
conception – birth
fish vs. human
resolution: it’s OK to be a tadpole
I just heard a big bang
it sounds like my parents decided
to have some fun
yet, I don’t think that
they calculated the consequences
well, you know kids!
The king is here
Hear people, the king is here
hear! hear! he has finally arrived
nine months seemed forever to wait
for him to come to be with us
18 months – 3 years autonomy vs. shame and doubt resolution: self-control and willpower The king is shy So much attention has turned the king shy he looks for his privacy at an early age he feels OK with people, by doesn’t say much maybe, it is part of his royal demeanor it’s fine, he’s…
3 – 6 years initiative vs. guilt resolution: mature sense of purpose The golden child is red The child is red, the king is red do not despair, it is not what you think! it’s only his hair, the color of fire he wears a hat to protect himself from the sun is the sun…
6 – 12 years industry vs. inferiority resolution: sense of self as competent The kingdom is falling apart The child is growing, the child is learning he is not comfortable at school even though he does well, they skip him a grade dark clouds are coming closer in his horizon he doesn’t know what destiny…
12 – 20 years identity vs. identity confusion resolution: fidelity = being true to yourself The adolescence that never was The child became a teenager he was shy, introverted, and depressed pain was all over his soul he didn’t have a father, at least, not with him he wouldn’t show the pain yet, he couldn’t…
20 – 35 years Intimacy vs. isolation resolution: loving In search of his heart He had left his heart in the north, in 1972, and it hurt he was madly in love, yes, quite much this way, for the first time in his life he met women here and there, but he couldn’t forget her…
35 – 65 years generativity vs. self-absorption resolution: sense of caring for and about others Fame and fortune are with the angels He and his wife lived together for nine years in Los Angeles the land of film and television, and movie stars he worked for the industry, but not too well he worked in…
