Wounds of History: Repair and Resilience in the Trans- Generational Transmission of Trauma

Wounds Of History Takes A New View In Psychoanalysis Using A Trans-generational And Social/political/cultural Model Looking At Trauma And Its Transmission. The View Is Radical In Looking Beyond Maternal Dyads And Oedipal Triangles And In Its Portrayal Of A Multi-generational World That Is No Longer Hierarchical. This Look Allows For Greater Clinical Creativity For Conceptualizing And Treating Human Suffering, Situating Healing In Expanding Circles Of Witnessing. The Contributors To This Volume Look At Inherited Personal Trauma Involving Legacies Of War, Genocide, Slavery, Political Persecution, Forced Migration/unwelcomed Immigration And The Way Attachment And Connection Is Disrupted, Traumatized And Ultimately Longing For Repair And Reconnection. The Book Addresses Several Themes Such As The Ethical/social Turn In Psychoanalysis; The Repetition Of Resilience And Wounds And The Repair Of These Wounds; The Complexity Of Attachment In The Aftermath Of Trauma, And The Move Towards Social Justice. In Their Contributions, The Authors Remain Close To The Human Stories. Wounds Of History Will Be Of Interest To Psychoanalysts, Psychologists And Other Mental Health Professionals, As Well As Students Or Teachers Of Trauma Studies, Jewish And Gender Studies And Studies Of Genocide. Part I. Massive Trauma : Attachment Ruptured, Attachment Repaired -- Introduction / George Halasz -- Listening To My Mother's Testimony / Dori Laub -- Arrival At Auschwitz : Traumatic Rupture And Empathic Containment In The Joint Narrative Of A Mother And A Daughter Who Survived The Holocaust Together / Johanna Bodenstab -- The Rhythm Of Resilience : A Deep Ecology Of Entangled Relationality / Karen Hopenwasser -- The Texture Of Traumatic Attachment : Presence And Ghostly Absence In Transgenerational Transmission / Jill Salberg -- Part Ii. Repetitions Of Violence, Antidotes To War -- History Making / Rachael Peltz -- Has Sexuality Anything To Do With War Trauma? Intergenerational Transmission And The Homosexual Imaginary / Steven Botticelli -- Repairing An Immigrant Chinese Family's Box Of Terrible Things / Amy Klatzkin, Alicia F. Lieberman, And Patricia Van Horn -- Enduring Mothers, Enduring Knowledge : On Rape And History / Judith L. Alpert -- Part Iii. Persecution And Otherness : Different Subjectivities And The Restoration Of Trust -- Introduction / Samuel C. Gable And David M. Goodman -- Collectively Creating Conditions For Emergence / Katie Gentile -- Trauma And Recovery : A Legacy Of Political Persecution And Activism Across Three Generations / Judith Lewis Herman -- In Shadows Of Terror : An Intergenerational Tale Of Growing Up In The Old Left / Lisa S. Lyons -- To Unchain Haunting Blood Memories : Intergenerational Trauma Among African Americans / Kirkland C. Vaughans -- Part Iv. Fragmented Legacies, Healing Narratives -- Introduction / Jill Salberg -- Historical Trauma Among Indigenous Peoples Of The Americas : Concepts, Research, And Clinical Considerations / Maria Yellow Horse Brave Heart, Josephine Chase, Jennifer Elkins, And Deborah B. Altschul -- Growing Up Armenian / Eric V. Hachikian -- Things They Carried : Leaving Korea / Marie Myung-ok Lee. Edited By Jill Salberg And Sue Grand. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Cover 1 Half Title 2 Title Page 6 Copyright Page 7 Dedication 8 Table of Contents 10 Notes on Contributors 13 Editors’ Introduction 22 Part I Massive Trauma: Attachment Ruptured, Attachment Repaired 28 Introduction 30 1 Listening to My Mother’s Testimony 39 2 Arrival At Auschwitz: Traumatic Rupture and Empathic Containment in the Joint Narrative of a Mother and a Daughter who Survived the Holocaust Together 60 3 The Rhythm of Resilience: A Deep Ecology of Entangled Relationality 81 4 The Texture of Traumatic Attachment: Presence and Ghostly Absence in Transgenerational Transmission 98 Part II Repetitions of Violence, Antidotes to War 122 History Making 124 5 Has Sexuality Anything to Do with War Trauma? Intergenerational Transmission and the Homosexual Imaginary 130 6 Repairing an Immigrant Chinese Family’s “Box of Terrible Things” 146 7 Enduring Mothers, Enduring Knowledge: On Rape and History 170 Part III Persecution and Otherness: Different Subjectivities and the Restoration of Trust 184 Introduction 186 8 Collectively Creating Conditions for Emergence 190 9 Trauma and Recovery: A Legacy of Political Persecution and Activism Across Three Generations 210 10 In Shadows of Terror: An Intergenerational Tale of Growing Up in the Old Left 225 11 To Unchain Haunting Blood Memories: Intergenerational Trauma among African Americans 247 Part IV Fragmented Legacies, Healing Narratives 264 Introduction 266 12 Historical Trauma Among Indigenous Peoples of the Americas: Concepts, Research, and Clinical Considerations 271 13 Growing Up Armenian 289 14 Things They Carried: Leaving Korea 307 Index 311 A rich collection of transnational and interdisciplinary case studies and analyses written by leading scholars in a key field. Wounds of History takes a new view in psychoanalysis using a trans-generational and social/political/cultural model looking at trauma and its transmission. The view is radical in looking beyond maternal dyads and Oedipal triangles and in its portrayal of a multi-generational world that is no longer hierarchical. This look allows for greater clinical creativity for conceptualizing and treating human suffering, situating healing in expanding circles of witnessing. The contributors to this volume look at inherited personal trauma involving legacies of war, genocide, slavery, political persecution, forced migration/unwelcomed immigration and the way attachment and connection is disrupted, traumatized and ultimately longing for repair and reconnection. The book addresses several themes such as the ethical/social turn in psychoanalysis; the repetition of resilience and wounds and the repair of these wounds; the complexity of attachment in the aftermath of trauma, and the move towards social justice. In their contributions, the authors remain close to the human stories. Wounds of History will be of interest to psychoanalysts, psychologists and other mental health professionals, as well as students or teachers of trauma studies, Jewish and gender studies and studies of genocide La 4e de couverture indique : "Wounds of History takes a new view in psychoanalysis using a trans-generational and social/political/cultural model looking at trauma and its transmission. The view is radical in looking beyond maternal dyads and Oedipal triangles and in its portrayal of a multi-generational world that is no longer hierarchical. This look allows for greater clinical creativity for conceptualizing and treating human suffering, situating healing in expanding circles of witnessing. The contributors to this volume look at inherited personal trauma involving legacies of war, genocide, slavery, political persecution, forced migration/unwelcomed immigration and the way attachment and connection is disrupted, traumatized and ultimately longing for repair and reconnection. The book addresses several themes such as the ethical/social turn in psychoanalysis; the repetition of resilience and wounds and the repair of these wounds; the complexity of attachment in the aftermath of trauma, and the move towards social justice. In their contributions, the authors remain close to the human stories. "Wounds of History" will be of interest to psychoanalysts, psychologists and other mental health professionals, as well as students or teachers of trauma studies, Jewish and gender studies and studies of genocide."