Review of Emotional Inheritance: A Therapist, Her Patients, and the Legacy of Trauma

Reviews the book, Emotional Inheritance: A Therapist, Her Patients, and the Legacy of Trauma by Galit Atlas (2022). In this book, Atlas reasserts the phenomenon of intergenerational transmission of trauma for the psychoanalytic community and introduces the concept to the public. In the tradition of clinicians who address mainstream audiences, the book comprises engaging and poignant treatment tales designed to entice readers into the therapeutic relationship. Atlas’s theme is the working-through of intergenerational trauma, which she packages simply as “emotional inheritance.” (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)