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"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"-- Provided by publisher.

"Those we love and those who raised us live inside us; we experience their pain, we dream their memories, and these legacies shape our lives in ways we don't always recognize. Emotional Inheritance is about family secrets that keep us from living up to our full potential, create gaps between our desires and our actions, and haunt us like ghosts. In this transformative book, Galit Atlas entwines the stories of her patients, her own memories, and decades of research to help us uncover the links between our life struggles and the 'emotional inheritance' we all carry. For it is only by following the traces these ghosts leave behind that we truly change our destiny."-- Back cover.

A trace in the mind

Our grandparents: inherited trauma in past generations. Life and death in love affairs ; Confusion of tongues ; Sex, suicide, and the riddle of grief ; The radioactivity of trauma

Our parents: the secrets of others. When secrets become ghosts ; Unwelcome babies ; Permission to cry ; Dead brother, dead sister

Ourselves: breaking the cycle. The taste of sorrow ; The cycle of violence ; The unexamined life

A door opens.

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