"A panel of students in the university’s honors program reflected on German-born author Gabriele Schwab’s book “Haunting Legacies: Violent Histories and Transgenerational Trauma,” class reading for the Spring Honors Reading Seminar this semester at UAS, before Sealaska Corp. board of directors member Patrick Anderson spoke on the “intergenerational transmission of trauma” within Southeast Alaska’s Native communities....
“We need to understand that our parents, while they may have been the vehicles of the perpetration of intergenerational transmission of trauma, were not the reason for it,” Anderson said. “Historical trauma was. Historically, the negative behaviors happened as a consequence of trauma. That first generation started drinking, started having bad relationships, started doing the things that perpetrate the intergenerational transmission of trauma, but we can’t blame that generation.”
http://juneauempire.com/state/2013-04-09/transgenerational-trauma-discussed-uas
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