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Emotional Inheritance

Moving beyond the legacy of trauma
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In Emotional Inheritance, award-winning psychoanalyst Dr Galit Atlas investigates how past family traumas unconsciously influence our lives and limit our potential. Through a blend of patient stories, personal experiences, and thorough research, she reveals how emotional pain and unresolved issues from previous generations live within us. Atlas guides readers to recognise these emotional inheritances so they can break free from these unseen bonds and reshape their destinies.
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This book is ideal for readers interested in psychology, psychoanalysis, and the impact of intergenerational trauma. It will appeal to those seeking personal growth or a deeper understanding of family dynamics and emotional healing.

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A vivid exploration, through a psychoanalytic lens, of the ghosts and buried traumas that hold us back and interfere with our lives.

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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 living to our full potential.

In this transformative book, award-winning psychoanalyst Dr Galit Atlas draws back the veil on the legacy of intergenerational trauma. Entwining the stories of her patients, her own stories, and decades of research, she shows how the people we love and those who raised us live inside us - how we take on their emotional pain - and she helps 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.

Book Details

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ISBN: 9781780725406

Publisher: Octopus Publishing Group

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 03 February 2022

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Short Books Ltd

Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 26.0mm

Width: 140.0mm

Height: 218.0mm

Weight: 348g

Pages: 240

About the Author

Galit Atlas, PhD, is a psychoanalyst and clinical supervisor in private practice in Manhattan. She is a faculty member of the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy & Psychoanalysis. Atlas has published three books for clinicians and numerous articles and book chapters that focus primarily on gender and sexuality. A leader in the field of relational psychoanalysis, Dr Atlas is a recipient of the Andre Francois Research Award and the NADTA Research Award. She teaches and lectures throughout the United States and internationally.

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