This talk will focus on Dr. Galit Atlas’ book Emotional Inheritance. It will discuss the ways in which trauma is transmitted from one generation to the next and held in our minds and bodies as our own. We will talk about emotional material that we unknowingly carry with us: the memories, feelings, and traumas that we inherit from previous generations and the link between our parents and grandparents’ history, and our own emotional struggles. 

We will explore…
What is Emotional inheritance? 
The ways trauma is transmitted from one generation to the next? 
How do we inherit, hold, and process things that we don’t remember or didn’t experience ourselves?
How secrets are lived and enacted in families
Common implications of trauma on second and third-generations
The impact of survivor guilt 
Inherited trauma the therapeutic process
Inherited trauma the therapeutic process
We recommend reading Chapter 3 of Emotional Inheritance prior to the workshop. 

Presenter: Dr. Galit Atlas is on the faculty at NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. She is the author of the books The Enigma of Desire: Sex, Longing and Belonging in Psychoanalysis and Dramatic Dialogue: Contemporary Clinical Practice (co-authored with Lewis Aron) and the editor and contributor to When Minds Meet: The Work of Lewis Aron. Her last book, Emotional Inheritance: A Therapist, Her Patients and the Legacy of Trauma, is an international bestseller, translated into 27 languages. Atlas serves on the editorial boards of Psychoanalytic Dialogues and of Psychoanalytic Perspectives. She is a recipient of the André François Award, the NADTA Research Award, and the Gradiva Award. She is a psychoanalyst and clinical supervisor in private practice in New York City and teaches and lectures throughout the United States and internationally.