Bibliography of Intergenerational/Multigenerational (Transmission of) Trauma Studies

Compiled by Doug Robinson (djr@olemiss.edu)

 

Abrams, Madeleine Seifter. “Intergenerational Transmission of Trauma: Recent Contributions from the Literature of Family Systems Approaches to Treatment.” American Journal of Psychotherapy 53.2 (June 30, 1999): 225-231.

 

Agamben, Georgio. Remnants of Auschwitz: The Witness and the Archive. Trans. Daniel Heller-Roazen. New York: Zone Books, 1999.

 

Akhtar, Salman. “A Third Individuation: Immigration, Identity, and the Psychoanalytic Process.” Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association 43 (1995): 1051-84. (1055)

 

Akhtar, Salman. Immigration and Identity. Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson, 1999.

 

Apprey, M. (1993). “The African-American Experience: Transgenerational Trauma and Forced Immigration.” Mind and Human Interaction 4 (1993): 70-75.

 

Atkinson, Judy. Trauma Trails: Recreating Song Lines. Spinifex Press, 2002.

 

Auerhahn, Nanette C., and Dori Laub. “Intergenerational Memory of the Holocaust.” Danieli, International Handbook, 21–41.

 

Balint, Michael. “Trauma and Object Relationship.” International Journal of  Psychoanalysis. 50 (1969): 429-436.

 

Brave Heart, Maria Yellow Horse, and Lemyra M. DeBruyn. “The American Indian Holocaust: Healing Historical Unresolved Grief.” American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research 8.2 (1998): 60–82.

 

Brave Heart, Maria Yellow Horse. “The Return to Sacred Path: Healing the Historical Trauma and Historical Unresolved Grief Response among the Lakota through a Psychoeducational Group Intervention.” Smith College Studies in Social Work 68.3 (1998): 288–305.

 

Caruth, Cathy. Unclaimed Experience: Trauma, Narrative and History. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.

 

Caruth, Cathy, ed. Trauma: Explorations in Memory. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995.

 

Chan, Sucheng. Survivors: Cambodian Refugees in The United States. Urbana/Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2004.

 

Cheng, Anne Anlin. The Melancholy of Race: Psychoanalysis, Assimilation, and Hidden Grief. New York: Oxford UP, 2001.

 

Churchill, Ward. A Little Matter of Genocide: Holocaust and Denial in the Americas, 1492 to the Present. San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1997.

 

Collier, Paul. Breaking the Conflict Trap: Civil War and Development Policy (World Bank Policy Research Reports). World Bank, 2003.

 

Danieli, Yael, ed. International Handbook of Multigenerational Legacies of Trauma. The Plenum Series on Stress and Coping, ed. Yael Danieli. New York: Plenum P, 1998.

 

Dapice, Ann N. “The Medicine Wheel.” Journal of Transcultural Nursing 17.3 (2006): 251-260.

 

Dapice, Ann N., Inkanish, C., Martin, B., & Brauchi, P. “Killing us Slowly: When We Can’t Fight and We Can’t Run.” Native American Times (September 2002). Retrieved from http://www.dlncoalition.org/related_issues/killing_us_slowly.htm

 

Dapice, Ann N., Inkanish, C., Martin, B., & Montalvo, E. “Killing us Slowly: The Relationship Between Type Two Diabetes and Alcoholism.” Native American Times (June 2001). Retrieved from http://vltakaliseji.tripod.com/Vtlakaliseji/id20.html

 

Duran, Bonnie, Eduardo Duran, and Maria Yellow Horse Brave Heart. “Native Americans and the Trauma of History.” Studying Native America: Problems and Prospects. Ed. Russell Thornton. Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 1998. 60–76.

 

Duran, Eduardo, and Bonnie Duran. Native American Postcolonial Psychology. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995.

 

Eckberg, Maryanna. Victims of Cruelty: Somatic Psychotherapy in the Treatment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. North Atlantic Books, 2000.

 

Espin, Oliva. Women Crossing Boundaries. London and New York: Routledge, 1998.

 

Fine, Ellen S. “The Absent Memory: The Act of Writing in Post-Holocaust French Literature.” Writing and the Holocaust. Ed. Berel Lang. New York: Holmes and Meier, 1988. 41–57.

 

Fresco, Nadine. “Remembering the Unknown.” International Review of Psycho-Analysis 11 (1984): 417–27.

 

Freud, Moses and Monotheism (intergenerational transmission of guilt)

 

Hartman, Geoffrey H. The Longest Shadow: In the Aftermath of the Holocaust. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1996.

 

Hicks-Ray, Denyse. The Pain Didn’t Start Here: Trauma, Violence and the African-American Community. TSA Communications, 2004. (post-traumatic slave syndrome)

 

Hoffman, Eva. After Such Knowledge: Memory, History, and the Legacy of the Holocaust. New York: Public Affairs-Perseus Books Group, 2004.

 

Hungerford, Amy. The Holocaust of Texts: Genocide, Literature, and Personification. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. see pp. 92-95

 

Karpf, Anne. The War After: Living with the Holocaust. London: Minerva, 1997.

 

Kauffman, Jeffrey. Loss of the Assumptive World. London and New York: Routledge, 2002.

 

Kogan, Ilany. Review of Danieli. Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies 4.1 (January 2002): 93-97.

 

LaCapra, Dominick. “Trauma, Absence, Loss.” Critical Inquiry 25 (Summer 1999): 696–727.

 

LaCapra, Dominick. Writing History, Writing Trauma. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000.

 

Latif, Sultan A., and Naimah Latif. Slavery: The African American Psychic Trauma. Latif Communications 1994.

 

Lemberg, Jennifer. “Transmitted Trauma and ‘Absent Memory’ in James Welch’s The Death of Jim Loney.” Studies in American Indian Literatures 18.3 (Fall 2006): 67-81.

 

Leys, Ruth. Trauma: A Genealogy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000.

 

Macready, Norra. “Intergenerational Trauma May Disrupt Attachment.” Clinical Psychiatry News 29.6 (June 1, 2001): 34-.

 

Miller, Nancy K., and Jason Tougaw, eds. Extremities: Trauma, Testimony, and Community. Urbana/Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2002.

 

Novac, Andrei. Review of Vamik D. Volkan, Gabriele Ast, and William Greer, Jr. The Third Reich in the Unconscious: Transgenerational Transmission and Its Consequences. Political Psychology 24.3 (September 2003): 625-27.

 

Raczymow, Henri. “Memory Shot through with Holes.” Yale French Studies 85 (1994): 98–105.

 

Rothberg, Michael. “The Work of Testimony in the Age of Decolonization: Chronicle of a Summer, Cinema Verité, and the Emergence of the Holocaust Survivor.” PMLA 119.5 (2004): 1231–46.

 

Sanyal, Debarati. “A Soccer Match in Auschwitz: Passing Culpability in Holocaust Criticism.” Representations 79 (Summer 2002): 1–27.

 

Sicher, Eraim. “The ‘Second-Generation’ Holocaust Novel.” Holocaust Novelists. Ed. Eraim Sicher. Dictionary of Literary Biography 299. Detroit: Gale, 2004. 397–407.

 

Sigal, John J., and Morton Weinfeld Trauma and Rebirth: Intergenerational Effects of the Holocaust. New York: Praeger 1989.

 

Stein, Howard F. Beneath the Crust of Culture: Psychoanalytic Anthropology and the Cultural Unconscious in American Life. Contemporary Psychoanalytic Studies 1. Rodopi 2003

 

Stone, J.  “Indian Youth Suicide.” Testimony of the American Psychological Association before the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, Washington, DC. June 15, 2005, Retrieved from http://www.apa.org/ppo/ethnic/stonetest.html

 

Volkan, Vamik D., Gabriele Ast, and William Greer, Jr. The Third Reich in the Unconscious: Transgenerational Transmission and Its Consequences. New York: Brunner-Routledge, 2002.

 

Waldram, James B. Revenge of the Windigo: The Construction of the Mind and Mental Health of North American Aboriginal Peoples. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004.

 

Weaver, Hilary N., ed. Voices of First Nations People: Human Services Considerations. Binghamton, NY: Haworth Press, 1999.

 

Yehuda, R., Kahana, B., Binder-Brynes, K., Southwick, S., Mason, J., & Giller, E. “Low Urinary Cortisol Excretion in Holocaust Survivors with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder.” American Journal of Psychiatry 152 (1995): 982-90.