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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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The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist”s Notebook—What Traumatized Children Can Teach Us About Loss, Love, and Healing

In this instant classic of developmental psychology, a renowned psychiatrist examines the effect that trauma can have on a child, reveals how PTSD impacts the developing mind, and outlines the path to recovery.

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Bruce D. Perry, Maia Szalavitz
2017
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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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The Body Never Lies: The Lingering Effects of Hurtful Parenting

An examination of childhood trauma and its surreptitious, debilitating effects by one of the world’s leading psychoanalysts. Never before has world-renowned psychoanalyst Alice Miller examined so persuasively the long-range consequences of childhood abuse on the body.

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Alice Miller, Andrew Jenkins (translator)
2006
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How to Tell If You Inherited Emotional Trauma + How to Let It Go

With new discoveries in epigenetics now making headlines, many of us are asking an important question: What are my children really inheriting? Can my baggage, the unfinished business I don't deal with, pass on to my kids? Without knowing it, could I be hurting them?

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Mark Wolynn
2020
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Intergenerational Trauma