The Family System Plot (FSP): A new repertory grid diagnostic tool for
the examination of relationships within the system „family“
Frank Schoeneich *, Otto B. Walter**, Cora Weber, Pia Thier, Burghard
F. Klapp*
* Charité / Virchow Clinic, Medical School of Humboldt University,
Internal Medicine - Psycho-somatics, Berlin (Germany), ** GridLab-Software-Development,
Berlin (Germany)
Abstract
The Repertory Grid diagnostic is particular well-suited for the examination
of relationships. Up to this point, the self identity plot (SIP) has been
a widely used instrument for the examination of significant interpersonal
relationships and self-regulatory parameters such as the self-representatives
„actual self“ and „ideal self“. Presented here is a new Repertory Grid
diagnostic tool, namely the Family System Plot (FSP). Analogous to the
self identity plot (SIP), the Family System Plot depicts the Euclidean
distances (Slater, 1977; Hartmann, 1992; Schoeneich & Klapp, 1998)
in a two-dimensional graphic, with respect to the relationship to mother
and father. The presentation is based on a number of case studies of psychosomatic
in-patients. The aim here is to introduce this new instrument and discuss
possible results and their potential for statistical opera-tionalization.
Hypotheses regarding the derivation of regulative-systemic parameters for
questions regarding individual diagnostic and research will also be discussed.
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