Ripples of the Holocaust. Talk at Jewish Museum, Melbourne
This paper examines long term consequences of the Holocaust on survivors, child survivors, and second and third generations of Holocaust survivors. It examines the communications and conflicts between the generations, and finally the common story they all share.
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Publication Author: Paul Valent
Publication Date: 3 July 2003
Categories: Child survivors of the Holocaust, Nature, treatment, memory, bearing witness, Second Generation; Transgenerational Transmission
Passing on the Pain. Australian Jewish News. Opinion/Analysis p 26
Studies on second and third generation Holocaust survivors come to different conclusions. It depends on how one searches for them. Important trauma transmissions do not show up on statistical analyses.
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Publication Author: Paul Valent
Publication Date: May 11 2012
Categories: Second Generation; Transgenerational Transmission
Case presentation of generational transmission. Talk to Holocaust survivor therapists
A case history demonstrates how concretisation, transposition, conspiracy of silence, and other dynamics impact on second generation Holocaust survivors. One should not be complacent about their often normal outward appearance.
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Publication Author: Paul Valent
Publication Date: 1998
Categories: Second Generation; Transgenerational Transmission
Transgenerational transmission of grief using the Holocaust as an example. National Association for Loss And Grief Conference
Some Holocaust losses were too much to grieve. It might be up to the next generation to do so. But this may be especially difficult, as the original traumas may need to be retrieved from unconscious inheritance of traumatic events, a conspiracy of silence, and unmentioned parental traumas. A clinical case is presented where these obstacles are overcome.
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Publication Author: Paul Valent
Publication Date: October 1999
Categories: Dying, bereavement, Second Generation; Transgenerational Transmission
Interrupting Transgenerational Violence CD (Film) From Survival to Fulfilment; Trauma and Fulfilment Therapy.
This film demonstrates visulally the wholist perspective. Wholist includes holistic (biopsychosocial) and ‘whole’. The perspective includes survival strategies and their radiations across three dimensions within a triaxial framework. How the wholist perspective is clinically useful is illustrated by a case of interruption of violence and sexual abuse across the generations.
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Publication Author: Paul Valent
Publication Date: 1998
Categories: Second Generation; Transgenerational Transmission
Interrupting Transgenerational Violence; Treatment of a Victim of Domestic Violence. International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies Conference Washington
Domestic violence is often transmitted across the generations. The purpose of this presentation is to demonstrate the pervasive effects of domestic violence across the generations. A film demonstrates the clinical case of a woman and her family. How transgenerational transmission of trauma can be interrupted is discussed.
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Publication Author: Paul Valent
Publication Date: 1998
Categories: Second Generation; Transgenerational Transmission, Violence
Healing transgenerational trauma. Introduction. Presentations Limmud Oz, Transgenerational Trauma Conference
A mother is frozen in non-mourning for her dead family. She looks at her child with unshed tears and does not see her child. This induces a sense of non-existence and depression in the child. Illustrations and means of transmission of trauma across the generations are presented. Such transmission may be interrupted. It is never too late for love to thaw out trauma.
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Publication Author: Paul Valent
Publication Date: 12th June 2006
Categories: Healing, Second Generation; Transgenerational Transmission