Transgenerational Trauma and Therapy The Transgenerational Atmosphere

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Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Acknowledgments Forewords Nancy R. Goodman: Inspiration: Growing the Mind Ferenc Erős Preface Introduction 1. The impact of trauma Healthy development of personality Explosive phase Possible effects of trauma The shocking event and the traumatic reaction Healthy processing of trauma Pathological processing of the trauma 2. From trauma to transgenerational trauma The role of the containing function of society Findings from Holocaust research Society and trauma Risk factors for a trauma becoming transgenerational What can help in the healthy processing of trauma? The role of witnesses and the sharing of the experience Pathological processing of transgenerational trauma 3. The first-generation impacts of collective societal traumas The loss of basic trust The deadened state Traumatic space and time Damage to the mourning process. The transgenerational secret, shame, and guilt Memory Damage, narrative, and non-narrative forms of memory Continuity Imagination Relationships 4. The transgenerational atmosphere Characteristics of the transgenerational atmosphere The functions of the transgenerational atmosphere The meeting of transgenerational atmospheres 5. The transgenerational self-experience The we-self The self-part enclosed in the capsule in the following generation The atmosphere as a primitive defense mechanism in the next generation 6. The impact of collective societal traumas on subsequent generations Born into the atmosphere Basic mistrust Children not born for their own sake The relationship to reality, distortion of space-time in the subsequent generations Parallelism Guilt and shame Anxiety Remembering and narrative Continuity Imagination Relationship characteristics 7. Therapeutic aspects of transgenerational trauma Observations from therapy in the Holocaust literature Therapeutic aspects of the transgenerational atmosphere 8. Methodology for the therapy of transgenerational trauma The purpose of the therapy; therapeutic principles The therapy process Summary Closing thoughts Reflections Júlia Hardy (dr.), family and psychodrama psychotherapist Rita Horváth (PhD.), literary scholar and historian Dezső Németh (PhD., DSC.), cognitive psychologist András Szécsényi (PhD.), historian Ágnes Zana (PhD.), cultural anthropologist János Zana (dr.), control systems specialist References Index