AnotherSelf
AnotherSelf is a series of one hour shorts in 8 Episodes/ 2 seasons which has made a big hit internationally. It was just released in late July, 2024 in the USA via Netflix. The 1st season has 8 one-hour long episodes. Its appeal?: 91% of google users like it.
Although it has a message about a certain kind of effective therapy—each episode is filled with drama, romance, beautiful vistas, charming indoor spaces, loving sisterly relationships, and fun. So it’s much more a romantic drama than documentary—but it will pique your curiosity about Constellation Therapy, even though footage of the therapy is a small fraction of the whole. This series came from a 2022 Turkish TV series and is now effectively dubbed in English.
AnotherSelf Storyline
Three friends from modern Istanbul, Turkey, go to a lovely seaside town, Ayvalik, Turkey, to take a break from their challenging lives. Although resistant at first, each one also takes part in Constellation therapy sessions and has the support to quickly work through unresolved trauma connected to their families’ pasts. In this way the series explores family constellations (patterns), ancestral healing, and generational trauma.
It‘s intimate, engaging, heartfelt, and emotional—but also highly informative if you consider the results of the therapy. The three women who do therapy sessions are healed of cancer, essential tremor (a neurological condition), and very challenging relationship issues. So, it’s a story of profound interconnectedness and hope—that healing emotionally laden issues can help heal the body as well as relationship problems. It’s a story that includes many facets of love.
The Creators
Nuran Evren Sit created the Netflix drama series, AnotherSelf, in 2022. Sit worked with a consultant who had participated in over 1,000 family constellation sessions—some with the originator of the therapy, Bert Hellinger. Bert Hellinger is considered to be one of the most innovative and influential therapists in the world of psychotherapy. He synthesized years of training and experience with many modalities into the approach he developed called Family Constellations.
Pelin Ekinci Kaya is the producer of the series. Burcu Alptekin directed the show, which premiered in Turkey in Turkish on July 28, 2022. It stars Tuba Büyüküstün, Seda Bakan, and Murat Boz: all wonderful actresses.
https://www.netflix.com/title/81380432
Personal Note: I am watching the series now and am enthralled…wonderful photography, good acting, and profoundly moving to see changes in people’s lives after the constellation therapy.–Emma Bragdon