Lost in transmission : studies of trauma across generations / / edited by M. Gerard Fromm

• Pubblicazione: London, : Karnac Books, c2012
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (251 p.)
• Disciplina: 616.85; 616.85/21; 616.8521
• Soggetto topico: Psychic trauma; Psychology, Pathological
• Altri autori: FrommGerard
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: COVER; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS AND PERMISSIONS; ABOUT THE EDITOR AND CONTRIBUTORS; Introduction; PART I SHADOWS OF THE HOLOCAUST; Introduction; CHAPTER ONE The second generation in the shadow of terror; CHAPTER TWO The broken chain: legacies of trauma and war; CHAPTER THREE Traumatic shutdown of narrative and symbolization: a death instinct derivative?; CHAPTER FOUR Clinical and historical perspectives on the intergenerational transmission of trauma; PART II INSIDE THE CONSULTING ROOM; Introduction; CHAPTER FIVE The intertwining of the internal and external wars ; CHAPTER SIX Treatment resistance and the transmission of traumaCHAPTER SEVEN Turns of a phrase: traumatic learning through the generations; CHAPTER EIGHT Intergenerational violence and the family myth; CHAPTER NINE A quixotic approach to trauma and psychosis; PART III CONTEMPORARY AMERICA; Introduction; CHAPTER TEN A mosaic of transmissions after trauma; CHAPTER ELEVEN Heroes at home: the transmission of trauma in firefighters' families; CHAPTER TWELVE Afterword: lost and found; INDEX
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 appears to be a person's symptom may turn out to be a symbol - in the context of this book, a symbol of an unconscious mission - to repair a parent or avenge a humiliation - assigned by the preceding generation. These tasks may be more or less idiosyncratic to a given family, suffering its own personal trauma, or collective in response to societal trauma. This book attempts to address this heritage of trauma - the way that the truly traumatic, that which cannot be contained by one generation, necessarily and largely unconsciously plays itself out through the next generation - and to do so both from clinical and societal perspectives.
• Titolo autorizzato: Lost in transmission
• ISBN: 0-429-91588-8; 0-429-90165-8; 0-429-47688-4; 1-283-34152-2; 9786613341525; 1-84940-943-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910955081603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II