Psychodynamics of intergenerational trauma experience transmission in the context of cultural-historical clinical psychology

Abstract

The article is devoted to psychodynamics of intergenerational trauma experience transmission examined on the example of the most researched trauma in the world’s history – Holocaust. Nowadays we see the crisis and transformation of experience transmission mechanisms, therefore researching of trauma experience transmission is considered actual by the author. The author shows in the article, how trauma experience is transmitted through parents’ approaches to upbringing and education of their children and how it influences identity of second generation that didn’t endure this trauma in reality, but only through their parents’ stories and recollections. Intergenerational trauma experience transmission could be seen not only on personal level, but also on social and public level that should be always taken into consideration while using the research methods of cultural-historical clinical psychology.