Emotional Inheritance, Galit Atlas
Emotional Inheritance, Galit Atlas
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Emotional Inheritance
A Therapist, Her Patients, and the Legacy of Trauma

Author: Galit Atlas

Narrator: Galit Atlas

Unabridged: 9 hr 3 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/25/2022

Synopsis

Award-winning psychoanalyst Dr. Galit Atlas draws on her patients' stories—and her own life experiences—to shed light on how generational trauma affects our lives in this "intimate, textured, compassionate" book (Jon Kabat-Zinn, author of The Healing Power of Mindfulness). The people we love and those who raised us live inside us; we experience their emotional pain, we dream their memories, and these things shape our lives in ways we don’t always recognize. Emotional Inheritance is about family secrets that keep us from living to our full potential, create gaps between what we want for ourselves and what we are able to have, and haunt us like ghosts. 
 
In this transformative book, Galit Atlas entwines the stories of her patients, her own stories, and decades of research to help us identify the links between our life struggles and the “emotional inheritance” we all carry. For it is only by following the traces those ghosts leave that we can truly change our destiny.

Author Bio

Galit Atlas is a psychoanalyst and clinical supervisor in Manhattan. She is a faculty member of the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy & Psychoanalysis. As an essayist and author, Atlas has published numerous articles and book chapters that focus primarily on gender and sexuality. Atlas served on the board of directors of the Division of Psychoanalysis of the American Psychological Association. She is the recipient of the Andre Francois Research Award and the NADT Research Award.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Thomas on January 05, 2023

I found this book an insightful and sometimes deeply moving look at how generational trauma affects people’s mental health and relationships. Galit Atlas a psychoanalytic therapist, describes several of her therapy cases and how people’s family histories affected the course of their treatment with h......more

Goodreads review by Alicia on December 18, 2021

This is one of my favorite reads of 2021, and that's saying a lot as I've logged over 300 books this year. Dr. Atlas shows us how we pass on our trauma through generations just as we pass on our biological genes, even when our stories are never discussed between generations. She uses a different case......more

Goodreads review by Leona on May 27, 2022

This book advocates for therapy but doesn’t really give readers any tools besides anecdotes. I agree we inherit emotions from our parents but it’s difficult to analyze if they have passed on. I also don’t think understanding the source of a behavior is enough to release it. We all have emotional bag......more

Goodreads review by Tanja on April 05, 2023

I don't really know if I believe in the concept of psychologically inherited trauma quite as the anecdotes delivered in this book. However, I do think that family trauma and family secrets can influence future generations. It's in the silences, the violence, the hints. That it would really somehow s......more

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