Galit Atlas

Through intricate storytelling, psychoanalyst Galit Atlas unpicks the extraordinary link between our childhood wounds and our later intimate relationships, to help us transform pain into power and develop deeper connections. A masterwork by one of the great thinkers of our time. - Dani Shapiro A deliriously smart and empathetic book that makes a match between the way you love and...

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 'A powerful, lucid, deeply empathic exploration of the legacy of generational trauma' Dani Shapiro, author of Inheritance 'Atlas's heady and beautiful book offers much insight, as well as tools for beginning to unpack the stories we're living, stories that aren't actually ours to live' Oprah Daily Past family trauma can keep us unconsciously connected to the past....

Galit Atlas deftly shows why the hurts and stuckness that can plague us can be faced and, yes, dissolved. Contemporary psychoanalysis at its best. - Susie Orbach, author of Fat Is a Feminist Issue Past family trauma can keep us unconsciously connected to the past. It shapes our lives in ways we don't always recognise, and can keep us from...