Psychotherapeutic Work with Intergenerational Trauma

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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THE SPEAKER

Maya Jacobs-Wallfisch

Maya Jacobs-Wallfisch is a Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist who trained with the Arbours Association, with 25 years of clinical experience in the public and voluntary sectors and is now in private practice.

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Publisher: Virago 2013

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In the Other Chair: Holocaust Survivors and the 2nd Generation as Therapists
Author: Yvonne Tauber
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