Lost in Transmission

Gerard Fromm, M.

• Introduction -- Shadows of the Holocaust -- Introduction -- The second generation in the shadow of terror -- The broken chain: legacies of trauma and war -- Traumatic shutdown of narrative and symbolization: a death instinct derivative? -- Clinical and historical perspectives on the intergenerational transmission of trauma -- Inside the Consulting Room -- Introduction -- The intertwining of the internal and external wars -- Treatment resistance and the transmission of trauma -- Turns of a phrase: traumatic learning through the generations -- Intergenerational violence and the family myth -- A quixotic approach to trauma and psychosis -- Contemporary America -- Introduction -- A mosaic of transmissions after trauma -- Heroes at home: the transmission of trauma in firefighters’ families -- Afterword: lost and found