It didn't start with you : how inherited family trauma shapes who we are and how to end the cycle

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It didn't start with you : how inherited family trauma shapes who we are and how to end the cycle / Mark Wolynn.

Summary:

A groundbreaking approach to transforming traumatic legacies passed down in families over generations, by an acclaimed expert in the field. Depression. Anxiety. Chronic Pain. Phobias. Obsessive thoughts. The evidence is compelling: the roots of these difficulties may not reside in our immediate life experience or in chemical imbalances in our brains - but in the lives of our parents, grandparents, and even great-grandparents. The latest scientific research supports what many have long intuited - that traumatic experience can be passed down through generations. This book builds on the work of leading experts in post-traumatic stress, including Mount Sinai School of Medicine neuroscientist Rachel Yehuda and psychiatrist Bessel van der Kolk, author of The Body Keeps the Score. Even if the person who suffered the original trauma has died, or the story has been forgotten or silenced, memory and feelings can live on. These emotional legacies are often hidden, encoded in everything from gene expression to everyday language, and they play a far greater role in our emotional and physical health than has ever before been understood. As a pioneer in the field of inherited family trauma, the author has worked with individuals and groups on a therapeutic level for over twenty years. This book offers a pragmatic and prescriptive guide to his method, the Core Language Approach. Diagnostic self-inventories provide a way to uncover the fears and anxieties conveyed through everyday words, behaviors, and physical symptoms. Techniques for developing a genogram or extended family tree create a map of experiences going back through the generations. And visualization, active imagination, and direct dialogue create pathways to reconnection, integration, and reclaiming life and health. This is a transformative approach to resolving longstanding difficulties that, in many cases, traditional therapy, drugs, or other interventions have not had the capacity to touch. -- Adapted from publisher's description.

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ISBN: 9781101980385
ISBN: 1101980389
ISBN: 9781101980361
ISBN: 1101980362
Physical Description: viii, 246 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Publisher: New York, New York : Penguin Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2017
Copyright: ©2016

Content descriptions

General Note:: "First published in the United States of America by Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2016" -- Title page verso.
Bibliography, etc. Note:: Includes bibliographical references (pages [229]-235) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:: Part I. The web of family trauma. Chapter 1. Traumas lost and found ; Chapter 2. Three generations of shared family history : the family body ; Chapter 3. The family mind ; Chapter 4. The core language approach ; Chapter 5. The four unconscious themes -- Part II. The core language map. Chapter 6. The core complaint ; Chapter 7. Core descriptors ; Chapter 8. The core sentence ; Chapter 9. The core trauma -- Part III. Pathways to reconnection. Chapter 10. From insight to integration ; Chapter 11. The core language of separation ; Chapter 12. The core language of relationships ; Chapter 13. The core language of success ; Chapter 14. Core language medicine.