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Lost in transmission : studies of trauma across generations /

A central thesis of this volume is that what human beings cannot contain of their experience - what has been traumatically overwhelming, unbearable, unthinkable - falls out of social discourse, but very often onto and into the next generation, as an affective sensitivity or a chaotic urgency. What a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Fromm, Gerard
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Karnac Books, 2011.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part 1. Shadows of the Holocaust: 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
  • Part 2. Inside the consulting room: 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
  • Part 3. Contemporary America: A mosaic of transmissions after trauma ; Heroes at home : the transmission of trauma in firefighters' families ; Afterword : lost and found.