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.
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