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Emotional Inheritance A Therapist, Her Patients, and the Legacy of Trauma

Galit Atlas

Award-winning psychoanalyst Dr. Galit Atlas draws on her patients' stories—and her own life experiences—to shed light on how generational trauma affects our lives in this "intimate, textured, compassionate" book (Jon Kabat-Zinn, author of The people we love and those who raised us live inside us; w...

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The book, published in 2022 and translated into 17 languages, explored the therapist's experiences with her patients and how trauma is passed down through families.

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You will remember Dr. Galit Atlas as the author of the international bestseller, Emotional Inheritance, a therapist, her patients and the legacy of trauma, which is freaking amazing and has been trans...

— Episode: 159. Family Estrangement: Should You Rep...

Episode: 159. Family Estrangement: Should You Repair or Run...

The book, published in 2022 and translated into 17 languages, explored the therapist's experiences with her patients and how trauma is passed down through families.

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You will remember Dr. Galit Atlas as the author of the international bestseller, Emotional Inheritance, a therapist, her patients and the legacy of trauma, which is freaking amazing and has been translated into 23 languages.

Episode: 97. How Family Secrets Shape Us: Emotional Inherit...

It was discussed as a new way to understand ourselves and how trauma can be passed down through generations, both biologically and through unspoken family stories.

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Dr. Galit Atlas is a psychoanalyst and clinical supervisor in private practice in New York City. Her new book, Emotional Inheritance was published in January and is already being translated into 17 languages.

And I think my research and the emotional inheritance book, as you know, is about an intermingling of nature and nurture because the epigenetic research can tell us something really important about how the expression of genes and how what we carry from generation to generation.

I talk in the book, for example, and I share my own experiences. My mother lost her brother when she was 10 years old and he was 14. In my family, there is a fear of water.

I call it secrets we keep from ourselves in the book, right? Secrets are many things. Some of them are things that we don't know about and nobody told us. And some of it are things we keep in some isolated place in our minds.

Everybody go get Emotional Inheritance. It's good, fascinating stuff. And it should be a TV show.

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