Emotional Inheritance: A Therapist, Her Patients, and the Legacy of Trauma

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 fa...