Main description:

Often, our trans-generational legacies are stories of 'us' and 'them' that never reach their terminus. We carry fixed narratives, and the ghosts of our perpetrators and of our victims. We long to be subjects in our own history, but keep reconstituting the Other as an object in their own history. Trans-generational Trauma and the Other argues that healing requires us to engage with the Other who carries a corresponding pre-history. Without this dialogue, alienated ghosts can become persecutory objects, in psyche, politics, and culture.

This volume examines the violent loyalties of the past, the barriers to dialogue with our Other, and complicates the inter-subjectivity of Big History. Identifying our inherited narratives and relinquishing splitting, these authors ask how we can re-cast our Other, and move beyond dysfunctional repetitions - in our individual lives and in society.

Featuring rich clinical material, Trans-generational Trauma and the Other provides an invaluable guide to expanding the application of trans-generational transmission in psychoanalysis. It will appeal to psychoanalysts, psychoanalytic psychotherapists and trauma experts.

Contents:

Editor's Introduction Jill Salberg and Sue Grand

Section 1: When Our Histories Collide

Introduction to Section 1: Haunted Dialogues: When Histories Collide C. Fred Alford, Ph.D.

Chapter 1. Representing, Theorizing and Reconfiguring the Concept of Trans-generational Haunting in order to Facilitate Healing Maurice Apprey, M.D.

Chapter 2. Skin Memories: On Race, Love and Loss Sue Grand, Ph.D.

Chapter 3. When the Shadow of the Holocaust Falls Upon the Analytic Dyad Deborah Liner, Ph.D.

Section 2: Political Legacies, Encrypted Hauntings

Introduction to section 2: Confronting The Other Within Kirkland Vaughans, Ph.D.

Chapter 4. The Demonization of Ethel Rosenberg Adrienne Harris, Ph.D.

Chapter 5. The Endurance of Slavery's Traumas and 'Truths' Janice Gump, Ph.D.

Chapter 6. Dialogues in No Man's Land Ofra Bloch

Chapter 7. Racialized Enactments and Normative Unconscious Processes: Where Haunted Identities Meet Lynne Layton

Section 3: Reassembling Narrative and Culture: Bridging Otherness

Introduction to section 3: Healing Haunted Memories: From Monuments to Memorials Donna Orange, Ph.D., Psy.D.

Chapter 8. Tower of Skulls: A Totemic Memorial to the Cambodian Genocide Evelyn Rappoport, Psy.D.

Chapter 9. War and Peace Eyal Rozmarin, Ph.D.

Chapter 10. The Colonized Mind: Gender, Trauma and Mentalization Sandra Silverman, L.C.S.W.

Chapter 11. My Attachment Disorder with Truth David Goodman, Ph.D.