Resilience and Survival: Understanding and Healing Intergenerational Trauma presents a unique combination of resilience theory with attachment, psychoanalysis, and developmental neuroscience, with a mind–body–brain developmental approach to therapy. It shows how resilience can be reinforced and structured to create stronger individuals and societies, vis-à-vis increasing traumatic and stressful life circumstances. The author investigates several human practices, processes, and features that aid our capacity to resist, combat, adapt to or counter extreme traumatisation. These features and capabilities come into play at the interface between vulnerability and resilience, leading to a deeper understanding of the mechanism of resilience itself.
Each chapter illustrates the components necessary to achieve resilience: attachment, connectedness, memory, testimony, education, and the development and practice of artistic and creative activities. The book also explores the positive effects of moral commitment, empathy, and altruism, and psychodynamic intergenerational therapy on trauma, showing that acts and feelings of compassion and forgiveness, and an appreciation for and use of higher order symbolic structures, such as art and creativity, together contribute to building and reinforcing resilience and social solidarity.
Table of Content
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
CHAPTER 1
Introduction: Resilience and survival: understanding and healing intergenerationally transmitted trauma
CHAPTER 2
The human pact: Trauma of human agency as the first reason for suffering and psychopathology
CHAPTER 3
Attachment: An interpersonal vehicle of transmission and mediation of trauma
CHAPTER 4
Attachment and transmission of trauma of the third level (genocide)
CHAPTER 5
Therapy with survivors of human agency: To heal and redeem intergenerational trauma
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
About the author
Clara Mucci is a psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapist practising in Milan and Pescara, Italy. She is Full Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Chieti, where she taught English Literature and Shakespearean Drama. She received a Ph D from Emory University, Atlanta, and was a fellow in 2005–2006 at the Institute of Personality Disorder, New York, directed by Otto Kernberg. The author of several monographs on Shakespeare, psychoanalysis, and literary theory, she has taught in London (Westminster College), Atlanta, and New York (Hunter College).
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