Psychotherapeutic Work with Intergenerational Trauma

Intergenerational trauma, Freud and bullying

This accompanying presentation focuses on the traumatic attachments underlying the rigid dualisms at the heart of such relational phenomena as bullying and dichotomous gender. By way of illustration, Doris Brothers examines the extent to which Freud’s life, attitudes and thinking reflect themes of bullying as a response to the traumatizing anti-Semitism that pervaded his family’s history. The impact that this may have had on the culture of psychoanalytic training organizations is explored.