Galit Atlas, PhD, is a psychoanalyst and clinical supervisor in private practice in New York City. She is on the faculty of the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy & Psychoanalysis. She is a faculty member of the National Training Programs (NTP) and the Four Year Adult training program of the National Institute for the Psychotherapies (NIP). Dr. Atlas has published three books for clinicians and numerous articles and book chapters that focus primarily on gender and sexuality. Her New York Times publication "A Tale of Two Twins" was the winner of a 2016 Gradiva Award. A leader in the field of relational psychoanalysis, Dr. Atlas is a recipient of the Andre Francois Research Award and the NADTA Research Award. She teaches and lectures throughout the United States and internationally.
"Atlas's heady and beautiful book offers much insight, as well as
tools for beginning to unpack the stories we're living, stories
that aren't actually ours to live."--Oprah Daily
"Emotional Inheritance offers extraordinary insight to readers who
feel stuck in life-long patterns and sense they are haunted by
ghosts from their family's past. Dr. Atlas deftly shares her own
history and that of her patients, while seamlessly weaving in the
relevant psychological research. Dr. Atlas's book reads like a
propulsive page-turner, while also offering deep psychological
insights about inherited trauma and family secrets. This book will
undoubtedly change lives and help readers unlock their unfulfilled
potential."--Christie Tate, author of Group
"A powerful, lucid, deeply empathic exploration of the legacy of
generational trauma, Emotional Inheritance makes clear that Galit
Atlas is not only a gifted psychoanalyst, but a gifted writer as
well. I loved this book and was stirred by it."--Dani Shapiro,
author of Inheritance
"A truly wise and daring book, Emotional Inheritance is an utterly
compelling account of how the unconscious passage of trauma from
one generation to the next is revealed in psychotherapy. With her
special gift for evocative narrative, Dr. Atlas makes us present as
witnesses to powerful stories of sorrows held in secret, of
children who carry those sorrows forward, knowing without knowing
what darkens their lives. Illuminating the meaning of such
histories with splendid insights, this book will deeply satisfy
whoever has wondered what psychoanalysis can offer in the present
world."--Dr. Jessica Benjamin, author of The Bonds of Love
"An illuminating book. The stories Dr. Atlas shares reveal the
potency of our inherited wounds, showing how the experiences of our
ancestors shape our lives in quiet but far-reaching ways, and how
we all have the potential to heal."--Lori Gottlieb, author of Maybe
You Should Talk To Someone
"An intimate, textured, and compassionate exploration of
intergenerational trauma, how it is carried and transmitted within
families, and how it can be skillfully invited in, recognized,
attenuated, and perhaps resolved through the therapeutic
relationship, metabolizing what has hitherto not been named or
nameable."--Jon Kabat-Zinn, author of The Healing Power of
Mindfulness
"Beautiful, artistic, and elegant. Dr. Atlas skillfully uses
stories from her practice to explore the archeology of
transgenerational trauma. The descriptions of the therapeutic
process pull you in; you come to know both patient and therapist.
In doing so, you cannot help but reflect on your own journey.
Emotional Inheritance is a gem for anyone, but it is an essential
read for those seeking to understand trauma, therapy, and the
healing process."--Bruce D. Perry, MD, PhD, coauthor (with Oprah
Winfrey) of the #1 New York Times Bestseller What Happened to
You?
"Dr. Atlas writes with profound living compassion for those who
have carried, in their bodies, minds, hearts, spirits and souls,
the most often unspoken and secret traumas of their own hurt
elders. As a first-generation American child growing up in my tough
family of war refugees, deportees--the ethnically cleansed,
struggling immigrants, I humbly assert that I know about
generational traumas in depth. I recognize Dr. Atlas as one who
writes in full knowing detail--about what I call in my work, 'the
generational wound."--Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés Reyés, author of
Women Who Run with the Wolves
"Galit Atlas has given us a gift with her book Emotional
Inheritance. With warmth and compassion, she is able to show the
reader the ways our present challenges could be linked to our
inherited past. Using patient stories and her own experiences, we
are taken on a journey of discovery. By sharing these stories, she
gives us a glimpse behind our own curtains and helps us understand
that if we are open to the possibility of hope, now might be the
right time to break the silence our ancestors have held for so
long."--Sharon Salzberg, author of Real Happiness
"Galit Atlas takes up Tolstoy's assertion--'Happy families are all
alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way'--as she
narrates the ways in which traumas are uniquely held within
families. Dr. Atlas tells the layered stories of her patients, as
their traumas reverberate with her own history of trauma and loss.
The intimacy of the storytelling captures the recognition and
repair that Dr. Atlas undertakes with her patients. Together they
exhume the secrets and the ghosts that carry and bury trauma,
pulling the reader into the present through the past, in order to
break into the potential that is the future. Such potential is not
a simple, sunny vale. Unhappy families are not made unthinkingly
happy. But as Dr. Atlas demonstrates through her graceful
generosity, bringing secrets and ghosts into the daylight offers
the potential for new stories, more life, and the liberation called
happiness."--Ken Corbett, PhD, author of A Murder Over a Girl
"Galit Atlas's Emotional Inheritance is insightful, perceptive, and
provocative--but also tender, touching, and personal. Talented
clinicians are not always talented writers, but Dr. Atlas is, and
her stories will stay with you. The world of epigenetics is in its
infancy for most of us, but Dr. Atlas uses ordinary language to
explain how we are born with psychological legacies that we cannot
escape, but which we can, with her help, understand."--Juliet
Rosenfeld, author of The State of Disbelief
"This book is full of great wisdom, expertise, and humanity. An
important, terrific, gripping read."--Dr. Anne Alvarez, author of
Live Company
"With elegance, Galit Atlas explains the troubling and nourishing
aspects of our emotional inheritances. She deftly shows why the
hurts and stuckness that can plague us can be faced and, yes,
dissolved. Contemporary psychoanalysis at its best. And good
storytelling, too."--Susie Orbach, author of Fat Is a Feminist
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