Lost in Transmission
Douban
Studies of Trauma Across Generations
M. Gerard Fromm
résumé
This book is about how traumatic psychological injury is passed down to the children and grandchildren of those who originally experienced it and about finding the shared humanity in families, in psychotherapy, in society, and in memories of the past that repairs the damage people do to one another.
contents
Introduction
Shadows of the Holocaust
Introduction
The second generation in the shadow of terror
The broken chain: legacies of trauma and war
Traumatic shutdown of narrative and symbolization: a death instinct derivative?
Clinical and historical perspectives on the intergenerational transmission of trauma
Inside the Consulting Room
Introduction
The intertwining of the internal and external wars
Treatment resistance and the transmission of trauma
Turns of a phrase: traumatic learning through the generations
Intergenerational violence and the family myth
A quixotic approach to trauma and psychosis
Contemporary America
Introduction
A mosaic of transmissions after trauma
Heroes at home: the transmission of trauma in firefighters’ families
Afterword: lost and found
