Psikofiloloji
From sources to original learning

Not mistaking a gap in family history for knowledge

Keep documents, second-hand accounts and unknown information separate in a source map.

This is a free educational pilot. Source readings and editorial examples are separate. No certificate is issued and completed clinical or educational review is not claimed.

Psychogenealogy's family-memory chapter moves through remembering, forgetting and reconstruction. Its genosociogram and social-atom account also includes significant people, places and relationships outside the family. Many connections on a map do not make all of them equally well evidenced.

Book context / selected passage

The workshop proposes the labels documented, reported and unknown. 'A relative said so' calls for recording both the account and its source. Leaving an unknown date blank records missing information; it does not prove a hidden event. These labels are our editorial tool, not a standardised scale from the book.

Original editorial explanation or fictional example

This family-mapping exercise does not ask for real names, health information or private events to be entered into the site. It uses fictional cards. Guessing details of an unremembered event or pressuring someone to disclose is not part of the objective. The aim is to keep provenance and uncertainty visible.

Original editorial explanation or fictional example

Apply it: fictional worksheet

Fictional cards: 'A civil record provides a date', 'A character says it happened this way', 'No record is available for that period'. Place them in documented, reported and unknown. Do not fill the gap by guessing.

Example reasoning and its limit

Document date: documented. Character's statement: reported. Missing record: unknown. These labels establish neither a cause nor a diagnosis.

Knowledge check

These are original learning questions, not psychiatric scales. Answers are not transmitted.

1. What is the most accurate source entry when an event's date is unknown?
Answer and explanation

Mark it as unknown

Missing information does not prove a particular hidden event.

2. What should accompany 'I heard this from a relative'?
Answer and explanation

The account's source and verification status

Where an account came from should be as traceable as its content.

3. What data does this workshop's mapping exercise use?
Answer and explanation

Cards explicitly labelled fictional

Unnecessary personal health information is not collected for the learning objective.

Concepts and further reading

Source trail

  • Anne Ancelin Schützenberger, Psikosoybilim. Çeviri: Kağan Kahveci. Türkiye İş Bankası Kültür Yayınları, 3. basım, Eylül 2017. | PDF 80, 81, 115, 116 | printed pp. 75, 76, 111, 112

Questions and examples were created for Psychofiloloji. Book scans and protected test items are not published. Inspecting a source page is not contemporary clinical validation.