Lost in transmission : studies of trauma across generations / editd by M. Gerard Fromm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part 1. Shadows of the Holocaust -- The second generation in the shadow of terror / Ilany Kogan -- The broken chain : legacies of trauma and war / Vera Muller-Paisner -- Traumatic shutdown of narrative and symbolization : a death instinct derivative? / Dori Laub -- Clinical and historical perspectives on the intergenerational transmission of trauma / Peter Lowenberg -- Part 2. Inside the consulting room -- The intertwining of the internal and external wars / Vamik D. Volkan -- Treatment resistance and the transmission of trauma / M. Gerard Fromm -- Turns of a phrase : traumatic learning through the generations / Barri Belnap -- Intergenerational violence and the family myth / E. Virginia Demos -- A quixotic approach to trauma and psychosis / Francoise Davoine -- Part 3. Contemporary America -- A mosaic of transmissions after trauma / Howard F. Stein -- Heroes at home : the transmission of trauma in firefighters' families / Kevin V. Kelly -- Afterword : lost and found / M. Gerard Fromm.