Verywell Health on MSN

How does intergenerational trauma work?

Definitions, studies, and examples ...
India Currents on MSN

How Saru Sivanesan overcame intergenerational trauma to find healing as an adult

This story was produced for the USC Center for Health Journalism’s Ethnic Media Collaborative. A Cycle of Trauma Saru ...
Healthline

Understanding Intergenerational Trauma and Its Effects

Traumatic experiences can take many forms. You might, for instance, find yourself facing long-term emotional distress after discovering a partner’s infidelity, losing your sibling in a car accident, ...
Psychology Today

Intergenerational Trauma

Intergenerational trauma refers to the apparent transmission of trauma between generations of a family. People who experienced adverse childhood experiences growing up, or who survived historical ...
Psychology Today

Are You Affected by Intergenerational Trauma?

Intergenerational trauma is a theory that trauma experienced by one person in a family can be passed down to future generations. Sometimes called historical trauma or multigenerational trauma, it can ...
The Post-Crescent

Breaking the cycle: Intergenerational trauma has real impacts on lives, connections of Wisconsinites

This story was produced as part of the NEW (Northeast Wisconsin) News Lab, a consortium of six news outlets covering northeastern Wisconsin. It is republished with the permission of The Press Times ...
Everyday Health

All About Intergenerational Trauma: Definition, Health Effects, and How to Cope

Can you inherit trauma from your family members? Yes. If unhealed and unaddressed, traumatic wounds can be unintentionally passed on, says Yael Danieli, PhD, the founder and executive director of the ...
Business Insider

5 signs you have intergenerational trauma passed on through your family, even if you're high-functioning day-to-day

You're probably aware that your parents help shape who you are, but that effect runs deeper for those experiencing what is known as intergenerational trauma. Intergenerational trauma, also known as ...
Los Angeles Times

How we can break the cycle of intergenerational trauma

Woven throughout most of this newsletter is the understanding that our past informs our present. It shows up in the choices we make, our relationships, our work. No corner of our lives goes untouched ...
Salon

Trauma seems to be passed down genetically — but experts still aren’t sure what that means

Trauma is an experience so harrowing that it can alter our gene expression — and in some cases, these changes can be passed down to future generations. But if the traumas experienced by our parents, ...
Cal Alumni Association

How Collective Trauma Can Hurt the Next Generation

Andrew Kim’s mind raced as he entered the sprawling South African hospital. It was 2017, and Kim, at the time a Northwestern University biological anthropology graduate student, was researching how a ...
Observer

Suppressed Intergenerational Traumas Surface in Christine Ay Tjoe’s Abstract Canvases

“Covered and Cover” at White Cube New York featured a spellbinding new body of work by Christine Ay Tjoe. © Christine Ay Tjoe. Photo © White Cube (Frankie Tyska ...