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

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

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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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Psychological Concepts Of “The Other:” Embracing The Compass Of The Self

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from The Psychology of TerrorismEdited by Dr. Chris StoutPreager Publishers2002 REPRINT: This contributed chapter first appeared in a book edited by Dr. Chris Stout on The Psychology of Terrorism, published by Praeger Publishers in early 2002. It was written in the days and weeks immediately after 9-11 as a first response to the quickly mounting …

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Spirituality in Trauma and Trauma-Healing: An Incarcerated Person’s Narrative

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1. IntroductionThis article is a narrative-based paper written from the perspective of an incarcerated man who has experienced myriad and varied traumas over the course of his life. In childhood, he was subjected to physical, mental, and emotional abuse at the hands of his father, which led to repeated traumatic separations and spiritual confusion after …

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

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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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Knowing My Why

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Social scientists recognize that case studies help illuminate critical ideas about the human condition. By sharing stories, we allow others to make connections and draw parallels. We all construct our realities. These constructions stem from a few foundational pillars, the years on this earth and our experiences, our DNA, and our ancient history. Before scientists …

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Transgenerational Trauma Shaping History: The Power of Images

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My father, Sol, was a Jew from Brooklyn who served in the U.S. Army Air Corps when he met my mother Kate, who had fled Nazi Germany on the Kindertransport. They met at a synagogue gathering in Detroit and married shortly thereafter. Their first years of marriage were largely spent apart, my father being deployed …

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Easing Trauma’s Polarizing Impact With The Power Of Vulnerability: Practical Tools For Reaching Out To The Hostile Other

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Many of us carry the fantasy that, in our next disagreement with someone from “the other side,” we will drive home our truth, we’ll be so sharp and will raise such powerful points, that the other will drop to his knees, tears in his eyes, and declare, “You’re so right, I am so wrong, how …

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Superhero

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https://youtu.be/le2HSDpD-Aw VERSE 1: I always wanted a red cape on my back I always wanted to best in my pack I always wanted to be known to be good To be the hero of my own hood If I could just fly, I could save everyone Stop all the wars, so nobody’s gotta run All …

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Transgenerational Trauma Effects: The Role of Epigenetics

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

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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

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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

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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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Healing Trauma Across Fourteen Generations

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Everything we do will affect seven generations is a saying known and understood by many Indigenous people of the world. The understanding of the impact on seven generations includes the ancestors as well as the unborn ones. Therefore, the act of writing these words are already having an impact on at least fourteen generations. This …

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Place, Historical Trauma, and Indigenous Wisdom

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“Place is the first of all beings, since everything that exists is in a place and cannot exist without a place.” – Archytas, as cited by Simplicius, Commentary on Aristotle’s Categories. “To know who you are, you have to have a place to come from.” – Carson McCullen, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter. Largely …

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