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Between Silence and Words, Trauma’s Haunting Legacy - Jill Salberg, PhD (Webinar live online)
2026-27 Friday Night Guest Lecture Series
Over the past few decades psychoanalysis has steadily been theorizing about trauma transmissions affecting multiple generations. Unmourned and unconscious these histories remain open wounds passing from one generation to the next in search of recognition and repair. Attachment has a primal role in our psyches, and trauma can cause massive disruption and disorganization of the parent-child bonding system. This paper addresses trauma and its transmission trans-generationally through the lens of contemporary attachment research/theory, neuroscience linking it all with psychoanalytic relational trauma theory. Understanding the complexity of these unconscious transmissions from the first to the second and later generations becomes crucial in a world where trauma sadly has become ubiquitous. Two clinical cases will be discussed reflecting how to work clinically with these transmissions and how to think about witnessing as a psychoanalytic therapeutic tool. The paper will additionally speak to the current moment we are living through of mass social trauma, including the violence and helplessness we are surrounded by.
Target Audience
______ Introductory ___X___ Intermediate ____X__ Advanced
Learning Objectives
- Participants will be able to identify aspects of transgenerational transmissions in the fragmentary ways in which they appear in treatment sessions.
- Participants will be able to recognize and analyze how the traumas of prior generations are transmitted through the attachment relationship.
- Participants will learn how to work with how these transmissions can be enacted in sessions and how to work on repair.
Jill Salberg, PhD, is faculty/clinical consultant at the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, Stephen Mitchell Center for Relational Studies, and a member of IPTAR and the IPA. She is on the editorial board of Psychoanalytic Quarterly, associate editor of Psychoanalytic Dialogues, and a reviewer for The International Journal of Psychoanalysis. She is editor of and contributor to the books: Good Enough Endings: Breaks, Interruptions and Terminations from Contemporary Relational Perspectives (2010) and Psychoanalytic Credos: Personal and Professional Journeys of Psychoanalysts (2022). She has co-edited, with Sue Grand, The Wounds of History: Repair and Resilience in the Transgenerational Transmission of Trauma, and Transgenerational Trauma and the Other: Dialogues Across History and Difference, (2017); both books won the Gradiva Award (2018). Their co-written book is Transgenerational Trauma: A Contemporary Introduction (2024).
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Available Credit
- 1.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
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