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Transgenerational trauma is the psychological and physiological effects that the trauma experienced by people has on subsequent generations in that group. The primary mode of transmission is the shared family environment of the infant causing psychological , behavioral and social changes in the individual.
Enslavement, genocide, war, forced migration and racism are all examples of cultural trauma. And for BIPOC parents, this shared suffering is intrinsically tied to how we raise our kids.
Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America's Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing is a 2005 theoretical work by Joy DeGruy Leary. [1] The book argues that the experience of slavery in the United States and the continued discrimination and oppression endured by African Americans creates intergenerational psychological trauma, leading to a psychological and behavioral syndrome common among present ...
Historical trauma, and its manifestations, are seen as an example of transgenerational trauma (though the existence of transgenerational trauma itself is disputed). For example, a pattern of paternal abandonment of a child might be seen across three generations, [2] or the actions of an abusive parent might be seen in continued abuse across ...
This trauma is depicted vividly in the movie "Fugitive Pieces." "You can see in the child's eyes, you know, the fear, unpredictability of the relationship, unpredictability of the response, which ...
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The effects of trauma can be transferred from one generation of childhood trauma survivors to subsequent generations of offspring. This is known as transgenerational trauma or intergenerational trauma, and can manifest in parenting behaviors as well as epigenetically.
Crystal Echo Hawk's grandfather never talked about being torn away from his community for a Native boarding school. A new podcast is giving survivors a voice to shed light on a dark chapter of our ...