2nd Edition
by Paula Nicolson
Fully revised and updated,
Genealogy, Psychology and Therapy highlights the importance of genealogy
in the development of identity, and the therapeutic potential of
family history in cultivating wellbeing.
The
popularity of amateur genealogy and family history has soared in
recent times. We will never know any of the people we discover from our
histories in person, but for several reasons, we recognize that their
lives shaped ours. Key approaches to identity and relationships lend
clues to our own lives but also to what psychosocial factors run across
generations. Attachment and abandonment, trusting, being let down,
becoming independent, migration, health and money, all resonate with
the psychological experiences that define the outlooks, personalities
and the ways that those who came before us related to others. This new
edition builds on the original book, Genealogy, Psychology, and
Identity, by highlighting the work of Erik Erikson along with studies
of the quality of attachment, historical social conditions especially
war, forced migration, health inequalities and financial uncertainty,
to enable a more detailed understanding of trauma and its long shadow,
and to focus on how genealogy informs our identities and emotional
health status, exploring the transmission of trauma across generations.
The intergenerational transmission of trauma is examined using
analysis of real-life family examples, alongside an assessment of a
narrative therapy approach to healing. The book expands on how
psychological practices together with genealogical evidence may impart
resilience and emotional repair, and develops the discussion of the
psychological methods by which we interconnect in a reflective way with
material from archival databases, family stories and photographs and
other sources including DNA.
Showing
how people can connect with archival material, using documents and
texts to expand their knowledge and understanding of the psychosocial
experiences of their ancestors, this book will be of interest to those
researching their own family tree, genealogists and counsellors, as
well as students and researchers in social psychology and social
history.
English | 2023 | PDF | 10 MB | 153 Pages
ISBNs: 1032114126, 1032119713, 978-1032114125, 9781032114125, 978-1032119717, 9781032119717, B0B26RCFXC
