A Guide to Understanding the Role of Intergenerational Trauma on Your Family

Making Sense of Family Tragedies Across the Generations: A Guide to Understanding the Role of Intergenerational Trauma on Your Family
Françoise Davoine, PhD
ISPS-US 15th Annual Meeting, Boston 2016

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In this presentation, renowned Lacanian analyst, Francoise Davoine, shares her understanding about how family traumas–from personal tragedies such as the loss of a child to social phenomena such as racism and war time, and the psychological stress of living in such a fast-paced world–can impact vulnerable family members for generations. In her decades of clinical work with people diagnosed with psychosis, Dr. Davoine has unpacked the family secrets and tragedies that can manifest in symbolic form in the seemingly psychotic symptoms of a family member. Psychoanalytic notions of symbolism and reality are plainly explained for the layperson, so that family members can have a new framework for trying to understand some of the more vexing aspects of their loved one's obtuse thoughts and behaviors.

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[ericwehrlin]

I found it interesting, especially the explanation of how to connect little and big history, how History hits individuals and how to retrieve what is hidden in family's history. As her husband, Mrs Davoine is passionate about her job and thrives to transmit her experience !