Emotional Inheritance with Dr. Galit Atlas, Ph.D
This talk will focus on Atlas’ book Emotional Inheritance. It will discuss the ways in which trauma is transmitted from one generation to the next and held in our minds and bodies as our own. We will talk about emotional material that we unknowingly carry with us: the memories, feelings, and traumas that we inherit from previous generations and the link between our parents and grandparents’ history, and our own emotional struggles.
We will explore…
What is Emotional inheritance?
The ways trauma is transmitted from one generation to the next?
How do we inherit, hold, and process things that we don’t remember or didn’t experience ourselves?
How secrets are lived and enacted in families
Common implications of trauma on second and third-generations
The impact of survivor guilt
Inherited trauma the therapeutic process
We recommend reading Chapter 3 of Emotional Inheritance prior to the workshop.
Learning objectives:
Participants will be able to define inherited trauma
Participants will be able to identify the analyst’s dissociation as a defense against family trauma.
Participants will be able to explain the ways emotional inheritance shapes are behavior
Participants will be able to give at least one example of how analyst and patient collude in order to avoid pain.
Participants will be able to explain the relation between reparation and repetition.
Format
We’d love for you to join us for this virtual workshop with Dr. Galit Atlas on Saturday, March 8, 2025 from 9:30am-12:00pm PST. Registrants will receive a link to join 24-hours prior to the event.
Fees:
General Public: $135
Students: $65
RPT Alumni: $65
Current RPT Participants: Free
2.5 CEU Credits: $35
CEUs are granted through our partnership with The Seattle School of Theology & Psychology. Continuing Education units at The Seattle School are recognized by the Washington Department of Health (DOH) because of its membership in the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities (NWCCU) and the Association of Theological Schools (ATS); member accrediting agencies of the United States Department of Education and the Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA). The Seattle School will not be held responsible if individual state or any other professional licensing boards do not recognize the requested CEUs.
Cancellation Policy
For seminar cancellation by participant the deadline to receive a refund is 5 business days before the event. Registration cancellations received prior to the deadline may be eligible to receive a refund less a $10 service charge to cover our processing fees. Cancellations received after the stated deadline will not be eligible for a refund. Refunds will not be available for registrants who choose not to attend an event. Cancellations will be accepted via e-mail and must be received by the stated cancellation deadline. All refund requests must be made by the attendee or credit card holder. Refund requests must include the name of the attendee and/or transaction number. Refunds will be credited back to the original credit card used for payment.
Dr. Galit Atlas, PhD
Dr. Galit Atlas is on the faculty at NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. She is the author of the books The Enigma of Desire: Sex, Longing and Belonging in Psychoanalysis and Dramatic Dialogue: Contemporary Clinical Practice (co-authored with Lewis Aron) and the editor and contributor to When Minds Meet: The Work of Lewis Aron. Her last book, Emotional Inheritance: A Therapist, Her Patients and the Legacy of Trauma, is an international bestseller, translated into 27 languages. Atlas serves on the editorial boards of Psychoanalytic Dialogues and of Psychoanalytic Perspectives. She is a recipient of the André François Award, the NADTA Research Award, and the Gradiva Award. She is a psychoanalyst and clinical supervisor in private practice in New York City and teaches and lectures throughout the United States and internationally.
Dr. Galit Atlas
www.galitatlas.com