https://www.apa.org/monitor/2019/02/legacy-trauma
Anyone with conscious gratitude who was raised in a healthy stable home understands that function teaches function, dysfunction teaches dysfunction, and trauma teaches trauma until problems can be diagnosed, understood, and treated to enable the healing and repair to end the viscious cycle.
Or maybe I’m just “woke” because I see complexity where others seek oversimplification. Residential schools obliterated First Nations culture, communities and families in ways beyond comprehension, evidenced by genocidal examples like this.
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Each generation seemed to kind of learn from the previous one, with survivors telling children, ‘Don’t trust others, don’t trust the world,’” says Bezo. He is now conducting a larger quantitative study to compare intergenerational effects among Ukrainians who remained in the country after the Holodomor, those who emigrated and a group of Ukrainians unaffected by the event. The work is part of an emerging line of research and clinical work in psychology and related disciplines that is exploring whether and how mass cultural and historical traumas affect future generations. Bezo’s observations are compatible with those of researchers who are exploring the intergenerational effects of the Holocaust, the Khmer Rouge killings in Cambodia, the Rwandan genocide, the displacement of American Indians and the enslavement of African-Americans. The transgenerational effects are not only psychological, but familial, social, cultural, neurobiological and possibly even genetic as well, the researchers say.
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“Massive traumas like these affect people and societies in multidimensional ways,” says Danieli, who is also the founder of the International Center for the Study, Prevention and Treatment of Multigenerational Legacies of Trauma. “It behooves us to study this area as widely as possible, so we can learn from people’s suffering and how to prevent it for future generations.”
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