Wounds of history : repair and resilience in the trans-generational transmission of trauma / edited by Jill Salberg and Sue Grand.

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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.
Description
xx, 295 pages ; 24 cm.

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Summary note
Wounds of History takes a new view in psychoanalysis using a trans-generational and social/political/cultural model looking at trauma and its transmission. The view is radical in looking beyond maternal dyads and Oedipal triangles and in its portrayal of a multi-generational world that is no longer hierarchical. This look allows for greater clinical creativity for conceptualizing and treating human suffering, situating healing in expanding circles of witnessing. The contributors to this volume look at inherited personal trauma involving legacies of war, genocide, slavery, political persecution, forced migration/unwelcomed immigration and the way attachment and connection is disrupted, traumatized and ultimately longing for repair and reconnection. The book addresses several themes such as the ethical/social turn in psychoanalysis; the repetition of resilience and wounds and the repair of these wounds; the complexity of attachment in the aftermath of trauma, and the move towards social justice. In their contributions, the authors remain close to the human stories. "Wounds of History" will be of interest to psychoanalysts, psychologists and other mental health professionals, as well as students or teachers of trauma studies, Jewish and gender studies and studies of genocide.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
  • Part I. Massive trauma : attachment ruptured, attachment repaired
  • Introduction / George Halasz
  • Listening to my mother's testimony / Dori Laub
  • Arrival at Auschwitz : traumatic rupture and empathic containment in the joint narrative of a mother and a daughter who survived the Holocaust together / Johanna Bodenstab
  • The rhythm of resilience : a deep ecology of entangled relationality / Karen Hopenwasser
  • The texture of traumatic attachment : presence and ghostly absence in transgenerational transmission / Jill Salberg
  • Part II. Repetitions of violence, antidotes to war
  • History making / Rachael Peltz
  • Has sexuality anything to do with war trauma? intergenerational transmission and the homosexual imaginary / Steven Botticelli
  • Repairing an immigrant Chinese family's "box of terrible things" / Amy Klatzkin, Alicia F. Lieberman, and Patricia Van Horn
  • Enduring mothers, enduring knowledge : on rape and history / Judith L. Alpert
  • Part III. Persecution and otherness : different subjectivities and the restoration of trust
  • Introduction / Samuel C. Gable and David M. Goodman
  • Collectively creating conditions for emergence / Katie Gentile
  • Trauma and recovery : a legacy of political persecution and activism across three generations / Judith Lewis Herman
  • In shadows of terror : an intergenerational tale of growing up in the Old Left / Lisa S. Lyons
  • To unchain haunting blood memories : intergenerational trauma among African Americans / Kirkland C. Vaughans
  • Part IV. Fragmented legacies, healing narratives
  • Introduction / Jill Salberg
  • Historical trauma among indigenous peoples of the Americas : concepts, research, and clinical considerations / Maria Yellow Horse Brave Heart, Josephine Chase, Jennifer Elkins, and Deborah B. Altschul
  • Growing up Armenian / Eric V. Hachikian
  • Things they carried : leaving Korea / Marie Myung-Ok Lee.
ISBN
  • 9781138807495 ((hardback ; : alk. paper))
  • 1138807494 ((hardback ; : alk. paper))
  • 9781138807501
  • 1138807508
LCCN
2016011484
OCLC
950445661
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