By Mark Matousek — 2016
A revealing talk with Mark Wolynn of the Family Constellation Institute.
Read on www.psychologytoday.com
CLEAR ALL
We don’t have to reject scientific logic in order to benefit from instinct.
In addition to the tragic losses of life and health and jobs, we are grieving the losses of weddings, sports and the ability to buy eggs or get a haircut.
Historical trauma is multigenerational trauma experienced by a specific cultural, racial or ethnic group.
Intergenerational trauma is manifest amongst Southeast Asian refugees of the Vietnam-American war – a conflict that accounted for three million Vietnamese deaths and more than two million Laotian and Cambodian deaths.
Intergenerational trauma—sometimes referred to as transgenerational trauma—is a term that is used to describe the impact of a traumatic experience, not only on one generation, but on subsequent generations after the event.
Have you ever heard of the term inter-generational trauma? What about “generational curse?”
Intergenerational trauma (sometimes referred to as trans- or multigenerational trauma) is defined as trauma that gets passed down from those who directly experience an incident to subsequent generations.
Multiple generations of families can transmit the damage of trauma throughout the years. Social workers must be aware of and detect the subtle and not-so-subtle effects on a family, a community, and a people.
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An emerging line of research is exploring how historical and cultural traumas affect survivors’ children for generations to come.
Most genetic studies completely ignore the science of epigenetics, which is how the environment actually turns certain genes on or off.
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