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  • Emotional Inheritance

  • A Therapist, Her Patients, and the Legacy of Trauma
  • Written by: Galit Atlas
  • Narrated by: Galit Atlas
  • Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
  • 4.9 out of 5 stars (22 ratings)

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Emotional Inheritance

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Publisher's Summary

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 in this "intimate, textured, compassionate" book (Jon Kabat-Zinn, author of The Healing Power of Mindfulness).

The people we love and those who raised us live inside us; we experience their emotional pain, we dream their memories, and these things shape our lives in ways we don’t always recognize. Emotional Inheritance is about family secrets that keep us from living to our full potential, create gaps between what we want for ourselves and what we are able to have, and haunt us like ghosts.

In this transformative book, Galit Atlas entwines the stories of her patients, her own stories, and decades of research to help us identify the links between our life struggles and the “emotional inheritance” we all carry. For it is only by following the traces those ghosts leave that we can truly change our destiny.

©2022 Galit Atlas (P)2022 Little, Brown & Company

What the critics say

“An intimate, textured, and compassionate exploration of intergenerational trauma, how it is carried and transmitted within families, and how it can be skillfully invited in, recognized, attenuated, and perhaps resolved through the therapeutic relationship, metabolizing what has hitherto not been named or nameable.” (Jon Kabat-Zinn, author of The Healing Power of Mindfulness)

“Beautiful, artistic, and elegant. Dr. Atlas skillfully uses stories from her practice to explore the archeology of transgenerational trauma. The descriptions of the therapeutic process pull you in; you come to know both patient and therapist. In doing so, you cannot help but reflect on your own journey. Emotional Inheritance is a gem for anyone, but it is an essential read for those seeking to understand trauma, therapy, and the healing process.” (Bruce D. Perry, MD, PhD, coauthor (with Oprah Winfrey) of the number one New York Times best seller What Happened to You?)

"Dr. Atlas writes with profound living compassion for those who have carried, in their bodies, minds, hearts, spirits and souls, the most often unspoken and secret traumas of their own hurt elders. As a first-generation American child growing up in my tough family of war refugees, deportees - the ethnically cleansed, struggling immigrants, I humbly assert that I know about generational traumas in depth. I recognize Dr. Atlas as one who writes in full knowing detail - about what I call in my work, ‘the generational wound." (Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés Reyés, author of Women Who Run with the Wolves)

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What a great listen!

Having the author narrate these experiences adds a lot of emotional depth and connection to how we are changed by the past and relationships. One of the easiest audio books to listen to and hopes to give you insight into what might be happening in your own and others lives.

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Wow!

I absolutely loved this book. As someone interested in learning more about wellness, mental health and trauma healing I would recommend! The stories of clients were insightful and inspiring.
All in all, an eye opening experience and will definitely reread in the future.

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Galit is amazing!

loved the presentation of each client and was fascinated with the concept of how our previous generations can impact us so profoundly without us even knowing. such a well written (read) book. bravo Galit!

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A book for everyone!

Are you a human? Yes? —-> read this book! Beautifully narrated, capturing content, thorough and profound. Relatable, understandable …

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Only downloaded half of book

Such an amazing listen !! Sadly although it appears fully downloaded book cut out half way through … not sure why ?!

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