Resilience and Survival: Understanding and Healing Intergenerational Trauma

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Resilience stands at the limits of what it is to be human. The opposite of vulnerability, it encompasses qualities that are both relational and innately enforced. In this unique book Clara Mucci investigates how resilience can be fostered to create stronger individuals and societies. Mucci explores human responses to intergenerational trauma and identifies the key principles that can foster resilience and healing. She looks not only through the prism of attachment theory and developmental neuroscience but also explores the power of art, memoir and other frameworks, showing that acts of compassion and forgiveness contribute to building and reinforcing resilience and solidarity.

Reviews

The depth and the breadth of these rich creative chapters is
remarkable.

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Allan
Schore, author of Right Brain Psychotherapy and The Development of the
Unconscious Mind

Could not be more timely and deeply useful in so many parts
of our beleaguered world . . . Mucci shows us how powerfully a psychoanalytic
lens can offer productive help and understanding.

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Adrienne
Harris, Ph.D., Supervisor, NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and
Training Analyst at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California

Mucci constructs a sophisticated sociobiological model of
hope, faith and grit that makes it possible for us to survive, if not master,
the cruelties of fellow human beings and the calamities of nature.

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Salman
Akhtar, M.D., Professor of Psychiatry, Jefferson Medical College and Training
and Supervising Analyst, Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia

Author Bio

Clara Mucci,Ph.D.,teaches DynamicPsychology at the University of Bergamoin Italy. Previously a professor of Shakespearean studies, she is now a psychoanalyst in private practice. She is the author of several books on Shakespeare and psychoanalysis, on trauma, the Holocaust and personality disorders Beyond Individual and Collective Trauma, and Borderline Bodies: Affect regulation therapy for Personality disorders.