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Can Trauma Be Inherited?

2017

Trauma doesn't just affect the person who originally experienced it. It can also be passed down to their children and grandchildren.

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Unspoken Legacy: Addressing the Impact of Trauma and Addiction within the Family

A far-ranging examination of how the effects of addiction and trauma in the family can reverberate for generations. Trauma and addictive disorders are often a result of psychological injuries experienced as a child.

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Claudia Black
2025
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The Apology

From the bestselling author of The Vagina Monologues—a powerful, life-changing examination of abuse and atonement—now in paperback, timed to its theatrical opening in New York. “A triumph of artistry and empathy.” —Naomi Klein “A crucial step forward . . .

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V (formerly Eve Ensler)
2025
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Launching a Revolution

As California’s first surgeon general, Nadine Burke Harris, MPH ’02, is carrying out the visionary agenda she has brought to medical care: finding the roots of disease in childhood adversity and treating the long-term consequences.

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Madeline Drexler
2020
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How to Reduce the Impact of Childhood Trauma

Children who experience adversity tend to have health problems later in life. Dr. Nadine Burke Harris explains why—and how we can help heal those wounds.

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Jeremy Adam Smith
2018
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Mother Hunger: How Adult Daughters Can Understand and Heal from Lost Nurturance, Protection, and Guidance

Trauma counselor Kelly McDaniel has seen these traits over and over in clients who feel trapped in cycles of harmful behaviors—and are unable to stop. Many of us find ourselves stuck in unhealthy habits simply because we don’t see a better way.

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Kelly McDaniel
2025
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Loving-Kindness: Healing Your Inner Child

Peggy Rowe Ward and Larry Ward on how to give yourself the love and compassion you deserve. And send some of that love to the wounded child inside you. They need it.

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Peggy Rowe Ward and Larry Ward
2020
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Banished Knowledge: Facing Childhood Injuries

In direct opposition to the Freudian drive theory, the author of the best-selling The Drama Of The Gifted Child believes that children, at birth, are inherently good. And she traces all forms of criminal deeds to past mistreatments.

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Alice Miller
1991
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For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence

For Your Own Good, the contemporary classic exploring the serious if not gravely dangerous consequences parental cruelty can bring to bear on children everywhere, is one of the central works by Alice Miller, the celebrated Swiss psychoanalyst.

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Alice Miller
1990
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Homecoming: Reclaiming and Championing Your Inner Child

In this powerful book, John Bradshaw shows how we can learn to nurture that inner child, in essence offering ourselves the good parenting we needed and longed for.

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John Bradshaw
1992
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A Man Named Dave: A Story of Triumph and Forgiveness

“All those years you tried your best to break me, and I’m still here. One day you’ll see, I’m going to make something of myself.” These words were Dave Pelzer’s declaration of independence to his mother, and they represented the ultimate act of self-reliance.

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Dave Pelzer
2000
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Intergenerational Trauma