THE LANGUAGE OF TRANSGENERATIONAL TRAUMA
| dc.contributor.author | Kostova, Zlatomira | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-11-13T07:31:12Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-11-13T07:31:12Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2026 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Understanding human suffering in clinical psychology necessitates an analysis that extends beyond the confines of individual biography. The insights provided by a systemic approach reveal how unresolved traumas can be transmitted across generations, manifesting as emotional pain, unconscious or invisible loyalties, recurring behavioral patterns, and symptoms not directly linked to subjective experience. Transgenerational trauma is associated with the transfer of psychological suffering from one generation to the next and can be provoked by extreme historical events. The "Genogram" method uncovers these elusive threads of transmission, making them visible within a biopsychosocial context – ranging from low self-esteem, emotional dysregulation, and hypervigilance, to difficulties in intimacy, somatic complaints, and addictions. This article presents an idiographic analysis of transgenerational trauma within the female lineage of Amon Goeth's family system, commandant of the Plaszow concentration camp. The genogram reveals the destinies of three generations: Ruth Irene Kalder (Goeth)-Monika Hertwig-Jennifer Teege. From the mechanisms of survival and direct encounter with human cruelty in the first generation, through inherited guilt and shame in the second, to the processes of integration and transformation of traumatic memory in the third generation, the path of the "language of violence" is outlined. A key clinical question is posed regarding the possibility of healing and breaking the transgenerational chain of pain through work with linguistic and narrative markers. | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 2815-4134 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://doi.uni-plovdiv.bg/handle/store/1142 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | Plovdiv University Press "Paisii Hilendarski" | |
| dc.subject | Transgenerational trauma | |
| dc.subject | violence | |
| dc.subject | genogram | |
| dc.subject | mentalization | |
| dc.subject | somatization | |
| dc.title | THE LANGUAGE OF TRANSGENERATIONAL TRAUMA | |
| dc.type | Article |