It Didn`t Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to

Новое букинистическое издание. "This groundbreaking book offers a compelling insight into inherited trauma and fresh, powerful tools to alleviate its suffering. Mark Wolinn is a wise and trustworthy guide on the path to healing. " — Tara Brach, PhD, author of the book "Radical Acceptance and True Refuge" An innovative approach to the transformation of the traumatic legacy passed down in families for generations, by a well-known expert in the field of depression. Anxiety. Chronic pain. Phobias. Obsessive thoughts. The evidence is convincing: the roots of these difficulties may lie not in our direct life experience or in a chemical imbalance in our brain, but in the lives of our parents, grandparents and even great-grandparents. The latest scientific research, which is now making headlines, confirms what many have long intuitively understood — that traumatic experiences can be passed down from generation to generation. "It Didn't Start with You" is based on the work of leading experts on post-traumatic stress, including Mount Sinai Medical School neuroscientist Rachel Yehuda and psychiatrist Bessel van der Kolk, author of the book "The Body Keeps Score. " Even if the person who suffered the initial trauma died, or the story was forgotten or silenced, memory and feelings can live on. This emotional legacy is often hidden, encoded in everything from gene expression to everyday language, and they play a much bigger role in our emotional and physical health than ever before. As a pioneer in the field of hereditary family trauma, Mark Wolinn has been working with individuals and groups on a therapeutic level for more than twenty years. It Didn't Start with You offers a pragmatic and prescriptive guide to its method, the basic language approach. Diagnostic self-descriptions provide a way to uncover fears and anxieties conveyed through everyday words, behaviors, and physical symptoms. The methods of developing a genogram or an extended family tree create a map of experience passing from generation to generation. And visualization, active imagination and direct dialogue create ways to reconnect, integrate and restore life and health. "It didn't start with you" is a transformative approach to resolving long—standing difficulties that in many cases traditional therapy, medications or other interventions have not been able to touch. «Эта новаторская книга предлагает убедительное понимание унаследованной травмы и свежие, мощные инструменты для облегчения ее страданий.