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In this book, Jill Salberg and Sue Grand offer an overview of the psychoanalytic work on transgenerational trauma, rooting their perspective in attachment theory and the social-ethical turn of Relational Psychoanalysis.
List of contents
Introduction
Legacies of Trauma Histories: Melancholic Hunger: Personal StoryMichael O'Loughlin
1. Historical Overview of Theories of Trauma and Transgenerational Transmissions
Jill Salberg
Legacies From Traumas of Slavery and Attachment Ruptures and Repairs: Personal StoryFrederick Douglass
Legacies From Slavery: Traumas Enacted, Attachment Ruptures Repaired: Personal StoryKirkland Vaughans
2. Between Silence and Words: Attachment, Trauma and the Mode of Transgenerational Transmissions
Jill Salberg
3. The Wound and Its Social Imperatives
Sue Grand
4. When Wounds Touch: Witnessing and Enacting as Embodied Healing Processes
Jill Salberg
Legacies From Trauma of Immigration, Violence, Loss, and Shame: Personal StoryRossanna Echegoyén
5. Legacies of Violence: Our Perpetrator Fragments
Sue Grand
Transgenerational Figures and Figurations in My Representational World: Personal StoryMaurice Apprey
6. Social Justice: Conflict Resolution and Transgenerational Studies
Sue Grand
About the author
Jill Salberg is Faculty at the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis. She is the editor of
Psychoanalytic Credos: Professional Journeys of Psychoanalysts (2022) and
Good Enough Endings (2010).
Sue Grand is Faculty at the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis. She is the author of
The Hero in the Mirror: From Fear to Fortitude (2009) and
The Reproduction of Evil (2002). She has co-edited two books with Lewis Aron and Joyce A. Slochower:
Decentering Relational Theory: A Comparative Critique and
De-Idealizing Relational Theory: A Critique From Within (both 2018).
Jointly they are the editors of
Wounds of History: Repair and Resilience in the Trans-Generational Transmission of Trauma (2017) and
Transgenerational Trauma and the Other: Dialogues across History and Difference (2017), both won the Gradiva award in 2018.
Summary
In this book, Jill Salberg and Sue Grand offer an overview of the psychoanalytic work on transgenerational trauma, rooting their perspective in attachment theory and the social-ethical turn of Relational Psychoanalysis.
