Transgenerational trauma – a curse down through the ages

  This isn’t astrological but a question popped up after the discussion on intergenerational trauma asking about studies on African Americans.   The concept first arose with children of Holocaust survivors in the 1960s, whose parents came out of the camps and most often said nothing of their experiences. It was not as widely written about then as it is now so the children knew little of what had gone on. Yet in some cases they lived out their parents’ trauma as if it h