
Psychotherapeutic Work with Intergenerational Trauma
The wounds of history in the consulting room
This lecture offers listeners a reflective framework for considering the impact and legacy of ‘unbelonging’ in the context of trans-generational trauma. Psychoanalytic psychotherapist, Maya Jacobs-Wallfisch first examines the transgenerational routes of her own subjective experience of disconnection, giving an historical account of her experience of grief in the aftermath of the Jewish Holocaust and her family’s strategies for dealing with this trauma. She then provides a relational-theoretical framework for considering how these deep and layered impressions of devastating losses that were faced by the previous generation may be worked with in the consulting room.
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