Name: suffering in silence: the legacy of unresolved sexual abuse (in English)
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Author: Ghislain Devroede; Anne Ancelin Schutzenberger; Anne Schützenberger
ISBN: 9781889968513

portada suffering in silence: the legacy of unresolved sexual abuse (in English)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Anne Schützenberger

Ghislain Devroede

Anne Ancelin Schutzenberger

Preface by

Anne Teachworth

Publisher

Gestalt Institute Press

Year

2005

Language

English

Pages

188

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9 x 15.2 x 1.1 cm

Weight

0.28 kg.

ISBN

188996851x

ISBN13

9781889968513

Synopsis "suffering in silence: the legacy of unresolved sexual abuse (in English)"

The body remembers sexual abuse and keeping family secrets causes illness. Unwittingly and unwillingly, our parents and grandparents and ancestors often leave us the legacy of their unfinished mourning, their "undigested" traumas, and the hidden shame of their secret family history. Sexual abuse and other traumas experienced in the family's past create insurmountable or unresolved emotional wounds that leave their mark on future generations. If these emotions are not expressed consciously, they get repressed. The pain then persists unexpressed in the unconscious and is handed down to the children in the next generation. When traumatic things are not talked about at the time, the body is left with the job of expressing this unfelt pain. This is what we call somatization. If such is the case, the child's body can become a physical expression of the withheld emotional pain for the wounded parents or grandparents or great-grandparents, indeed, as a physical "acting out" of their unfelt emotional pain. As a result, it becomes necessary to get the "family skeletons out of the closet" to reveal and heal the repressed historic wounds and free the child's body from the inherited "secret chill." In effect, these secrets are often carried down as an intestinal disturbance in the child's body until someone in the family line actually admits the secret, feels the emotional pain and gets the withheld pain released from the child's body by talking about it to the clinician.

Anne Schützenberger

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De nacionalidad francesa, nació en 1919. Obtuvo una licenciatura en Derecho y un doctorado en Psicología. Durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial participó en la Resistencia y en 1945 recibió el Prix de l'Alié a la Résistance. Una beca Fulbright le permitió especializarse en los Estados Unidos en psicología social y dinámica de grupo. Trabajó con Margaret Mead y con Gregory Bateson en el grupo de Palo Alto. Fue cofundadora de la Asociación Internacional de Psicoterapia de Grupo y, desde 1967, profesora emérita de la Universidad de Niza. Autora, entre otros, de los libros La voluntad de vivir, Salir del duelo (con Evelyne Bissone Jeufroy, Taurus, 2008) y ¡Ay, mis ancestros! (Taurus, 2008), falleció en 2018.

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