In this book, Jill Salberg and Sue Grand offer an overview of the psychoanalytic work on transgenerational trauma, rooting their perspective in attachment theory and the social-ethical turn of Relational Psychoanalysis.

Jill Salberg is Faculty at the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis. She is the editor of Psychoanalytic Credos: Professional Journeys of Psychoanalysts (2022) and Good Enough Endings (2010).

Sue Grand is Faculty at the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis. She is the author of The Hero in the Mirror: From Fear to Fortitude (2009) and The Reproduction of Evil (2002). She has co-edited two books with Lewis Aron and Joyce A. Slochower: Decentering Relational Theory: A Comparative Critique and De-Idealizing Relational Theory: A Critique From Within (both 2018).

Jointly they are the editors of Wounds of History: Repair and Resilience in the Trans-Generational Transmission of Trauma (2017) and Transgenerational Trauma and the Other: Dialogues across History and Difference (2017), both won the Gradiva award in 2018.

Introduction

Legacies of Trauma Histories: Melancholic Hunger: Personal Story

Michael O'Loughlin

1. Historical Overview of Theories of Trauma and Transgenerational Transmissions

Jill Salberg

Legacies From Traumas of Slavery and Attachment Ruptures and Repairs: Personal Story

Frederick Douglass

Legacies From Slavery: Traumas Enacted, Attachment Ruptures Repaired: Personal Story
Kirkland Vaughans

2. Between Silence and Words: Attachment, Trauma and the Mode of Transgenerational Transmissions

Jill Salberg

3. The Wound and Its Social Imperatives

Sue Grand

4. When Wounds Touch: Witnessing and Enacting as Embodied Healing Processes

Jill Salberg

Legacies From Trauma of Immigration, Violence, Loss, and Shame: Personal Story

Rossanna Echegoyén

5. Legacies of Violence: Our Perpetrator Fragments

Sue Grand

Transgenerational Figures and Figurations in My Representational World: Personal Story

Maurice Apprey

6. Social Justice: Conflict Resolution and Transgenerational Studies

Sue Grand