The Burden of Heritage: Hauntings of Generational Trauma on Black Lives
Book Details
- Publisher : Karnac Books
- Published : 2022
- Cover : Paperback
- Pages : 304
- Category :
Psychoanalysis - Category 2 :
Trauma and Violence - Catalogue No : 96150
- ISBN 13 : 9781913494247
- ISBN 10 : 1913494241
Table of Contents
About the Author
Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction
1. Transgenerational and intergenerational trauma
2. Trauma legacies
3. Understanding trauma
4. The nature of hauntings
5. Shame and its vicissitudes
6. Shame and its role in black identity wounding
7. The chokehold of historical enmeshment
8. Intersectionality and racialized trauma
9. Working therapeutically with generational trauma
10. Healing from the burden of our heritage
Epilogue
Appendix I: Glossary of terms
Appendix II: Recognizing my own ancestral burden
Appendix III: Values and principles underpinning good practice in working with issues of difference and diversity
Endnotes
Bibliography
Index