Description
In this book, Jill Salberg and Sue Grand offer an overview of the psychoanalytic work on transgenerational trauma, rooting their perspective in attachment theory, and the social-ethical turn of Relational psychoanalysis.
Transgenerational Trauma: A Contemporary Introduction is a cutting-edge study of trauma transmission across generations. Salberg and Grand consider how our forebears' trauma can leave a scar on our lives, our bodies, and on our world. They posit that, too often, we re-cycle the social violence that we were subjected to. Their unique approach embraces diverse psychoanalytic and psychodynamic theories, as they look at attachment, legacies of violence, and the role of witnessing in healing. Clinical and personal stories are interwoven with theory to elucidate the socio-historical positions that we inherit and live out. Social justice concerns are addressed throughout, in a mission to heal both individual and collective wounds.
Transgenerational Trauma: A Contemporary Introduction offers a nuanced and comprehensive approach to this vital topic, and will be of interest to psychoanalysts, psychologists and other mental health professionals, as well as students and scholars of trauma studies, race and gender studies, sociology, conflict resolution, and others.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Legacies of Trauma Histories: Melancholic Hunger: Personal Story
Michael O’Loughlin
1. Historical Overview of Theories of Trauma and Transgenerational Transmissions
Jill Salberg
Legacies From Traumas of Slavery and Attachment Ruptures and Repairs: Personal Story
Frederick Douglass
Legacies From Slavery: Traumas Enacted, Attachment Ruptures Repaired: Personal Story
Kirkland Vaughans
2. Between Silence and Words: Attachment, Trauma and the Mode of Transgenerational Transmissions
Jill Salberg
3. The Wound and Its Social Imperatives
Sue Grand
4. When Wounds Touch: Witnessing and Enacting as Embodied Healing Processes
Jill Salberg
Legacies From Trauma of Immigration, Violence, Loss, and Shame: Personal Story
Rossanna Echegoyén
5. Legacies of Violence: Our Perpetrator Fragments
Sue Grand
Transgenerational Figures and Figurations in My Representational World: Personal Story
Maurice Apprey
6. Social Justice: Conflict Resolution and Transgenerational Studies
Sue Grand
