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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461343103321

Autore

Coles Prophecy

Titolo

The uninvited guest from the unremembered past : an exploration of the unconscious transmission of trauma across the generations / / Prophecy Coles

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Routledge, , 2018

ISBN

0-429-90840-7

0-429-48363-5

1-283-24967-7

9786613249678

1-84940-927-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (137 p.)

Disciplina

616.8917

Soggetti

Psychic trauma

Post-traumatic stress disorder

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

COVER; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABOUT THE AUTHOR; PREFACE; Introduction; CHAPTER ONE Aeschylus and ancestral history"; CHAPTER TWO Sophocles and the fate of adoption; CHAPTER THREE Sibling ghosts; CHAPTER FOUR Grandmother's footsteps; CHAPTER FIVE The nurse; CHAPTER SIX The trauma of war; CHAPTER SEVEN Brain development and trauma; REFERENCES; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

Freud wrote to Binswanger on the anniversary of his daughter's death, ""We will remain inconsolable. I don't care for my grandchildren anymore, but find no joy in life anymore.""The author poses the question in this book; what legacy does grief, loss, trauma have upon the second and third generations? When Freud wrote ""I don't care for my grandchildren anymore', what impact did his agonised grief have upon them?This book is a meditation on the ideas that have evolved in response to this question over the author's thirty years as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist. Her central thesis is that we