Resilience and Survival: Understanding and Healing Intergenerational Trauma

Resilience stands at the limits of what it means to be human. The opposite of vulnerability, it defines qualities that are both relational and innately enforced. Mucci explores contemporary therapeutic approaches to intergenerational trauma, focusing on the key principles that can foster resilience and healing. She looks through the prism of attachment, neuroscience, memory, literary memoir and other frameworks to ask what traits constitute a predisposition to resilience – in individuals, and in society.

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

Chapter 1. Resilience and survival: still nurturing life at the limits of the human

Chapter 2. Unelaborated truths and the rewriting of history as trauma

Chapter 3. Morality and human development after Auschwitz

Chapter 4. First pillar towards resilience: attachment

Chapter 5. Second pillar: connectedness

Chapter 6. Third pillar: memory

Chapter 7. Fourth pillar: testimony

Chapter 8. Fifth pillar: empathic communities in place of narcissism

Chapter 9. Sixth pillar: education and learning in place of artificial intelligence

Chapter 10. Seventh pillar: healing through therapy for individuals and communities

INDEX