Galit Atlas is a psychoanalyst and clinical supervisor in Manhattan. She is a faculty member of the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy & Psychoanalysis. As an essayist and author, Atlas has published numerous articles and book chapters that focus primarily on gender and sexuality. Atlas served on the board of directors of the Division of Psychoanalysis of the American Psychological Association. She is the recipient of the Andre Francois Research Award and the NADT Research Award.
Award-winning psychoanalyst Dr. Galit Atlas draws on her patients'
stories - and her own life experiences - to shed light on how
generational trauma affects our lives in this "intimate, textured,
compassionate" book. Jon Kabat-Zinn, author of The Healing Power of
Mindfulness
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
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
Issue
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?
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
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
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
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
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
This book is full of great wisdom, expertise, and humanity. An
important, terrific, gripping read. Dr. Anne Alvarez, author of
Live Company
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
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
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