Michael O’Loughlin,is professor in the School of Education and clinical and research supervisor in the PhD Program in Clinical Psychology at Adelphi University.Marilyn Charles, PhD, is a staff psychologist at the Austen Riggs Center and a psychoanalyst in private practice in Stockbridge, Massachusetts.

• ForewordIntroduction, Marilyn Charles & Michael O’LoughlinPart I Fragments of TraumaChapter 1: Trauma, Fragmentation, Memory, and Identity, Marilyn CharlesChapter 2: Healing Transgressions of Tapu: Re-Membering the Body Sacred, Ingo LambrechtChapter 3: Black Maids-White Madams and the Ghosts in the Nurseries of Post-apartheid South Africa, Cora SmithChapter 4: The Lifelong Impact of Institutional Childhood Abuse: The Perspective of the Irish in Britain, Jeff Moore & Christine ThorntonChapter 5: Django Unchained: Identification with the Oppressor and Traumatic Reenactment, Claude BarbreChapter 6: Trauma and Resilience among a Stolen Generation of Indigenous People, Janice WaltersChapter 7: The Subtle Trauma: Premenstrual Syndrome, Language, and Subjectivity , Marie HansenPart II Interventions in Social SpacesChapter 8: Life after “Death:” An Empirical and Clinical Perspective on Trauma, Karen Lombardi & Avigail GordonChapter 9: Sounding Home: Using Music to Help Bear Witness and with Expression of Trauma for Patients with Psychosis, Trisha ReadyChapter 10: A Good Little Group: Recovering Lost Connections between Aboriginal Mothers and Children, Cate OsbornChapter 11: When Trauma is Normal: Violence, Creativity, and Healing Relationships in a Distressed African American Urban Neighborhood , Annie StopfordChapter 12: Trauma and Identity in Teacher Education Spaces, Richard Johnson & Michael SalzmanChapter 13: Making Sense of the Senseless: Feeling Bad, Being Mad, Getting Charged Up, Judy AtkinsonChapter 14: To Unchain Haunting Blood Memories: Intergenerational Trauma Among African Americans, Kirkland C. VaughansChapter 15: “Thinking Beyond Our Means:” Engendering a Depth Understanding of Trauma, Michael O’Loughlin & Barbara Ann McLeod

This book breaks new ground in work on intergenerational transmission of trauma. It not only offers a multitude of ways of understanding how trauma is passed on, but it brings theory compellingly alive by embedding it in a diverse and international array of sociocultural situations. The diversity itself allows readers to appreciate and experience the complex and painful ways that passed-on traumas are lived and communicated to those who bear witness.