

It is used as an effective method of family psychotherapy, a method of analysis and correction the family relations because the family experience is invaluable and family roots hold a lot of important information.

The Genogram describes the family relationships, interactions of generations in the family, important medical data and facts, the main events and changes inside the family in different generations, emotional relationships and connections, psychological factors. The Genogram, also named the McGoldrick–Gerson study, Lapidus schematic or family diagram is a schematic representation of a family, resembling a family tree, but with a slightly different system of outlining and with other purposes.
