Emotional Inheritance

"Galit Atlas deftly shows why the hurts and stuckness that can plague us can be faced and, yes, dissolved. Contemporary psychoanalysis at its best." - Susie Orbach, author of Fat Is a Feminist Issue

Dr. Galit Atlas, an internationally renowned psychoanalyst, draws on the emotional power of her patients' stories and her own life experiences to shed light on the extraordinary ways in which inherited family trauma affects our lives.

The people we love and those who raised us live inside us; we experience their emotional pain, we dream their memories, and these things shape our lives in ways we don't always recognise. Emotional Inheritance is about family secrets that haunst us and keep us from living to our full potential.

Through eleven remarkable case studies, Galit Atlas shows how it is only by engaging in delicate therapeutic detective work - collecting reminiscences of childhood, following the traces that those ghosts leave, and identifying the links between our life struggles and the emotional inheritance we carry - that we can break the cycle and change our destiny.