Stanley Krippner, Ph.D.

Author name: Stanley Krippner, Ph.D.

Stanley Krippner, PhD, is Alan W Watts Professor of Psychology and Integrative Inquiry at Saybrook University and co-author or co-editor of four books on war trauma, including "The Psychological Impact of War Trauma on Civilians." He is recipient of the American Psychological Association Award for Distinguished Contributions to the Advancement of International Psychology, and the Ashley Montagu Peace Award, presented to him by Common Bond Institute. Krippner is a fellow of several professional organizations, including the American Psychological Association, the Association for Psychological Science, the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, the Society for Scientific Study of Sexuality, and the American Society for Clinical Hypnosis. He is the recipient of the Lifetime Career Award of the Society for Humanistic Psychology and the International Association for the Study of Dreams. Krippner, a licensed addiction and substance abuse counselor, has given workshops on the treatment of PTSD nightmares in numerous countries, including China, Russia, Mexico, Brazil, and the United States.

Transgenerational Trauma Effects: The Role of Epigenetics

Scholarly Articles / By Stanley Krippner, Ph.D.

There is a solid body of literature documenting and characterizing the effects of traumas of one generation upon their children or even subsequent generations (Danieli, 1998). However, physiological mechanisms are not usually discussed, even for the first generation, and later generation effects are assumed to be transmitted through parental behavior. A new field of biological …

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