Title:
Emotional inheritance : a therapist, her patients, and the legacy of trauma / Galit Atlas, PhD.
ISBN:
9780316492126
Personal Author:
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Little, Brown Spark, 2022.
©2022
Physical Description:
x, 272 pages ; 22 cm
Contents:
A trace in the mind -- Our grandparents: inherited trauma in past generations. Life and death in love affairs ; Confusion of tongues ; Sex, suicide, and the riddle of grief ; The radioactivity of trauma -- Our parents: the secrets of others. When secrets become ghosts ; Unwelcome babies ; Permission to cry ; Dead brother, dead sister -- Ourselves: breaking the cycle. The taste of sorrow ; The cycle of violence ; The unexamined life -- A door opens.
Summary:
The people we love and those who raised us live inside us. We experience their emotional pain, we dream their memories, and these things shape our lives in ways we don't always recognize. Atlas shows that family secrets can keep us from living to our full potential, and haunt us like ghosts. Here she helps us identify the links between our life struggles and the "emotional inheritance" we all carry. -- adapted from jacket
OCLC Number:
on1250201139
Availability:
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