Cristina Cáceres Mangas is a Spanish Family Constellations facilitator with a specific focus on the systemic work of perinatal grief and child death: miscarriages, voluntary abortions, neonatal deaths, infant deaths, children given up for adoption.
Her distinctive contribution: a careful methodology for symbolically including these lost children in the family system, respecting their ordinal place, distinguishing between desired abortions (X) and undesired abortions (darkened circle), and working through the grief of the mother and the clan without moralizing the original decision.
Her articles published on cristinacaceresmangas.com are an accessible clinical reference for Family Constellations facilitators who need to work with this territory with subtlety. They include published cases, criteria for symbolic inclusion, and frequent systemic readings on unnamed abortions.
For the Constelando site, she is especially relevant because the female audience often carries this territory in silence. Cáceres offers a respectful and clinically sound working framework.
Bibliography
- Importance of including abortions in the family system (article) — Cristina Cáceres. cristinacaceresmangas.com.
- Love's Orders — Bert Hellinger. Herder, 2001.
These books are in the reference library that nurtures Constelando el Origen.
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Related terms
Abortion in the genogram — conventions
McGoldrick: small filled triangle + cross (spontaneous) or triangle + horizontal line (induced). In Hellinger interpretation: sometimes a darkened circle. The divergence is deliberate and clinically significant.
See entryOrdinal place of the lost child (Hellinger's rule)
In the systemic system, a deceased sibling —including abortions and premature deaths— retains their ordinal place. If there was an abortion before the first living child, the first living child is "the second."
See entryExcluded from the system
A clan member whom the system erases from the narrative. When someone is excluded, the system assigns a descendant the task of representing them.
See entryA session that namewhat hurts
If you recognize this dynamic in your own history, a Family Constellation can reveal where it comes from and what movement brings it into order. Daniela respectfully accompanies each case.
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