Intergenerational Trauma
Some traumas reverberate through families and communities. Oppression, family violence, and other sources of pain can leave biological, psychological, and relational imprints that can pass from parent to child. These events have the power to shape future generations, even when they didn't directly experience the original wounds. Understanding how unhealed trauma lives in bodies and family dynamics helps therapists address patterns that seem mysterious until viewed through a multigenerational lens. These articles explore historical trauma legacies, embodied healing, and creating new family narratives. Learn from Linda Thai, Frank Anderson, and others about breaking intergenerational cycles.
Moshe's Voice
A Therapist Reflects on Intergenerational Trauma, Silence, and Inherited Stories
Embodied Healing in a Disembodied World
Metabolizing Intergenerational Trauma & Collective Grief
One psychiatrist and 14 grandmothers in Zimbabwe access a vital, untapped resource for providing mental health support. Read more
A bicultural daughter of immigrants struggles to make sense of her identity as she mourns a grandmother she barely knew. Read more
The stories of four teenagers in the Muscogee Nation illustrates the power of community, myth, and spirituality in healing trauma. Read more
For one trauma therapist, parenting turned out to be the ultimate trial by fire—and a path to healing and wholeness. Read more
Resmaa Menakem, author of "My Grandmother’s Hands," discusses racialized trauma and a body-based path to healing. Read more
The Networker's former director of CE, Zach Taylor, sat down for a live conversation and Q&A with therapist and author Dafna Lender, discussing Dafna's recent... Read more
The key to working with a family may be getting parents to see the intergenerational trauma underlying present-day issues. Read more
Bringing the larger story of inherited trauma into the therapy room. Read more
Every clinical approach has its stories of sudden, life-changing breakthroughs. But a relatively obscure therapeutic school called Family Constellations... Read more
My name is Anita Mathilda Abram Mandley. That’s me peeking out from the lower left-hand corner of the picture. I’m with my great grandfather, great-great... Read more
How our family lineages weave a connection of giving and taking and giving again. Read more
For decades, Bert Hellinger and his Family Constellations approach have been a lightning rod for controversy. But the latest research on epigenetics and the... Read more
A new book explores how criminal behavior gets handed down in families from one generation to the next. Read more
Kenneth Hardy believes that the experience of trauma is too often unacknowledged by therapists struggling to help troubled minority youth. Read more
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