Scholarly Articles

Documenting an Undocumented History: A Counter-Narrative of Americans, Their Deportations, and Their Separated Families

Abstract This research explores the gaps in our larger conversation of undocumented immigration and undocumented families’ deportations, separations, and preservation of family unity within the last decade. While dominant narratives about undocumented immigration focus on political standings, federal regulations, and statistics, this paper provides six individuals’ experiences told through oral history interviews and the author’s …

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Worldview-Informed Healing: The 7 Bs of Indigenous-Inspired IFS (Internal Family Systems)

Scholarly Articles / By Suzan A. M. McVicker, PhD, LPC

Abstract Worldview-informed healing, like culturally-informed treatment, is both a resource and an outcome that is concerned with reducing burdens that are absorbed and carried transgenerationally. The 7 Bs of Indigenous-Inspired IFS (Internal Family Systems) is a mnemonic that arose from the collaborative voices of the recently formed IFS Indigenous Council. The 7 Bs embody the …

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Healing Trauma in War Torn Countries

Scholarly Articles / By Julie Roberts, PhD

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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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War And Flight Leave Traces In The Body Memory Of Refugees

Scholarly Articles / By Beatrice Schlee, PhD

White Supremacy, Overcoming A Legacy Of Cognitive Dissonance And Unresolved Trauma

Scholarly Articles / By Anthony Rivas

Abstract:This article aims to identify and understand how radicalized behavior, being a by-product of white supremacy is inculcated in individuals through continued cognitive dissonance and unresolved trauma. The avoidance of confronting uncomfortable emotions that comes with discussing this nation’s racialized history is symptomatic of an internal impairment. Subsequently, the legacy of a nation steeped in …

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An Inter-Generational Story At The Fall Of The Ottoman Empire

Scholarly Articles / By Nermin Soyalp, PhD

Excerpt From: “Historical Traumas Among Armenian, Kurdish, and Turkish People Of Anatolia: A Transdisciplinary Perspective Toward Reconciliation” Published by Sussex Academic Press in January 2022, Nermin Soyalp’s Historical Traumas is a transdisciplinary academic research book. Based on decade-long doctorate research, the author reviews the deep wounds that exist from long-standing conflicts between Turks, Kurds, and …

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Different Kinds of Transgenerational Trauma: Healing Old “Psychic Wounds” Through Psychotherapy

Scholarly Articles / By Courtenay Young

Abstract:This article looks at an overview of the concept of ‘transgenerational trauma’ – a phenomenon whereby the trauma that has occurred in one generation is ‘transmitted’ to another generation, and even another beyond that. This phenomenon occurs on a psychic level (often described as a ‘complex post-traumatic stress disorder’ mechanisms; or a ‘secondary traumatisation’), as …

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Some Emotions We Experience Are Not Ours: Western-European and Indigenous Forms of Transgenerational Theory and the Role of Sound

Scholarly Articles / By Kimberly Ann McCarthy, PhD (deceased)

Presentation forInternational Consortium for Research and Treatment of Transgenerational Trauma IntroductionSome emotions are not ours. From a Western-European psychological viewpoint this is ridiculous. Science, especially empiricism proves this, right? Based on Classical physics empiricism operates on the premise of locality and determinism: variables can be controlled and following that, outcomes can be predicted. This requires …

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Communal and Transgenerational Trauma

Documenting an Undocumented History: A Counter-Narrative of Americans, Their Deportations, and Their Separated Families

Worldview-Informed Healing: The 7 Bs of Indigenous-Inspired IFS (Internal Family Systems)

Healing Trauma in War Torn Countries

Transgenerational Trauma Effects: The Role of Epigenetics

War And Flight Leave Traces In The Body Memory Of Refugees

White Supremacy, Overcoming A Legacy Of Cognitive Dissonance And Unresolved Trauma

An Inter-Generational Story At The Fall Of The Ottoman Empire

Different Kinds of Transgenerational Trauma: Healing Old “Psychic Wounds” Through Psychotherapy

Some Emotions We Experience Are Not Ours: Western-European and Indigenous Forms of Transgenerational Theory and the Role of Sound

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