![]() ![]() “I think the essence of healing has been the effort to rewrite that narrative to something more loving, forgiving and kind. “My mother’s voice saying, ‘You’re worthless, you’re unlovable, you’re stupid,’ ” she said. Trauma has been garnering more and more attention over the past few years, with the rampant climb of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, and the understanding of what can cause it. This paper applies the concept of intergenerational transmission of trauma and Marianne Hirschs concept of postmemory to Art Spiegelmans graphic novels Maus I: A Survivors Tale: My Father Bleeds History and Maus II: A Survivors Tale: And Here My Troubles Began. Reframing: Foo said it was important to reframe the damaging stories she’d been fed as a child. A mothers unresolved trauma may interfere with her ability to sensitively respond to her infant, thus affecting the development of attachment in her own child, and potentially contributing to the intergenerational transmission of trauma.Increasingly, expressive arts therapies employing movement, music or visual arts, are being used to help patients find more adaptive ways to cope, said Cécile Rêve, co-founder of ARTrelief, a center that provides these arts-based therapies. Mind-body therapy: Somatic, or body-based therapies such as yoga, have been found to be effective for trauma.And the family’s still wondering what’s gonna happen. ![]() A patient may have internalized the belief they’re not good enough, “but upon unpacking it, they can see how their parents’, and maybe even their parents’ parents’, constant criticisms and lack of warmth or praise is the source of this belief.” Thematic link: Memory and intergenerational trauma, grief and loss, community.
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