1st Edition
The Uninvited Guest from the Unremembered Past An Exploration of the Unconscious Transmission of Trauma Across the Generations
By Prophecy Coles
Copyright 2011
136 Pages
by
Routledge
136 Pages
by
Routledge
136 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book describes different instances of trauma that may have occurred several generations ago. It explores the work of several psychoanalysts who have written on the negative effect that unknown or unremembered grandparents can have upon the life of their grandchildren.
Preface -- Introduction -- Aeschylus and ancestral history -- Sophocles and the fate of adoption -- Sibling ghosts -- Grandmother’s footsteps -- The nurse -- The trauma of war -- Brain development and trauma
Biography
Prophecy Coles