In this book, Maurice Apprey continues his unique work on transgenerational haunting to explore how events in our ancestors' lives may be renegotiated and re-subjectivized in the present from within the therapeutic dyad.

With an informed and impassioned voice that evokes the tragic psychic consequences of the unresolved, silenced tragedies and transgressions that haunt subsequent generations, Apprey illustrates how the analyst can unfold a patient's transference wishes and emancipate them from the unconscious projects, or errands, they have inherited. This can happen through a threefold process of excavating the unconscious sedimentations of ancestral history, appropriating and reactivating the ancestral errands within the transference, and subsequently decoding the patient's transference pressures. Expanding on Apprey's work about the analyst's field of inquiry and ways of listening in clinical practice, this book illuminates the potential for a resolution, rather than a re-enactment, of the traumas that can haunt a family system across generations.

Attending to the manifestation of transgenerational trauma through varied clinical material, and informed by the thinking of Sigmund Freud, among others, this book will be essential reading for all psychoanalysts and psychotherapists.

Author: Maurice Apprey
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 10/31/2023
Series: Relational Perspectives Book
Pages: 236
Weight: 0.81lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.55d
ISBN: 9781032484303

About the Author

Maurice Apprey, PhD, Professor of Psychiatry Emeritus at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, trained in child and adolescent psychoanalysis at the Anna Freud Centre, London, and in adult psychoanalysis at the Institute of the Contemporary Freudian Society. He is a training and supervising psychoanalyst of the International Psychoanalytic Association.

William F. Cornell, M.A., TSTA (P), maintains an independent private practice of psychotherapy and consultation in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is the author and editor of numerous books in transactional analysis and psychoanalysis. A co-editor of the Transactional Analysis Journal for 15 years, he is now the editor of the Routledge book series, "Innovations in Transactional Analysis." He is a recipient of the Eric Berne Memorial Award and the European Association for Transactional Analysis Gold Medal in recognition of his writing.