In the 1990s, researchers began to look at the biological mechanisms of intergenerational trauma via epigenetics. Others attributed intergenerational trauma to children becoming “containers” for their parents’ unwanted pain. Some experts in the medical community attributed intergenerational trauma to the stress of living with a traumatized person who may still be reliving horrific events. The conversation of exactly how trauma is transmitted was contested for decades following Rakoff’s paper. The late psychiatrist Vivian Rakoff, PhD first introduced the concept of intergenerational trauma in his 1966 paper on children of Holocaust survivors. Trauma can be transmitted in many ways - from our genetics to conversations at the dinner table. When it’s not coped with, it gets passed again,” said Merissa Nathan Gerson, author of “ Forget Prayers, Bring Cake,” a visiting assistant professor of communications at Tulane University, and inherited trauma consultant for Amazon’s “Transparent” series. How intergenerational trauma is passed on
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