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2
Event Type
Live In-Person Event
Location
Freud Museum, London
Time
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Standard
£40.00
Trainee/NHS
£34.00
Sunday, March 10, 2024
An Evening with Galit Atlas and Susie Orbach at the Freud Museum, London
Emotional Inheritance: Unpacking the legacy of trauma
With Galit Atlas & Susie Orbach
Includes a drinks reception
In this intimate, in-person conversation, the two acclaimed psychoanalysts Galit Atlas and Susie Orbach will discuss ideas from Galit's bestselling book Emotional Inheritance. A therapist, her patients and the legacy of trauma they will talk about family secrets, love, sexuality, the shameful and the forbidden, and the many ways in which we can locate the ghosts of the past that hold us back and interfere with our lives.
In the last decade, contemporary psychoanalysis and empirical research have expanded the literature on epigenetics and inherited trauma, investigating the ways in which trauma is transmitted from one generation to the next and held in our minds and bodies as our own. In studying the intergenerational transmission of trauma, clinicians investigate how our ancestors’ trauma is passed down as an emotional inheritance, leaving a trace in our minds and in those of future generations. Galit and Susie will think together about what this means for the practice of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy.
There will be an opportunity for questions and comments from participants as well as time to explore the museum, and join a drinks reception on the ground floor.
Programme
18.00 Arrival
We look forward to welcoming you into the Freud Museum. Our team will be on the registration desk to welcome you. Before taking your seats for the interview you can explore the museum, including Freud’s consulting room and infamous couch, and immerse yourself into the beginnings of the discipline of psychoanalysis and consider how far it has come!
18.15 Galit Atlas in conversation with Susie Orbach
How do we inherit, hold, and process things that we don’t remember or didn’t experience ourselves? Can we really keep secrets from one another, and what do we pass on to the next generation? The people we love and those who raised us live inside us; we experience their emotional pain, we dream their memories, and these things shape our lives in ways we don’t always recognize. We inherit family traumas, even those that we haven’t been told about
19.00 Q&A
19.15 Drinks Reception in the Museum
During the reception Galit will be signing copies of her book, Emotional Inheritance; A therapist, her patients, and the legacy of trauma.
20.00 End
Susie Orbach
Susie Orbach is a psychotherapist, psychoanalyst, writer and co-founder of The Women’s Therapy Centre in London (1976) and The WTCI in New York (1981).
She is the author of many books. Her most recent In Therapy: The Unfolding Story is an expanded edition of In Therapy (an annotated version of the BBC series listened to live by 2 million people). Her first book Fat is a Feminist Issue has been continuously in print since 1978. Bodies (which won the APA Psychology of Women’s Book Prize in 2009) was updated in 2019.
She is the recipient of the Inaugural British Psychoanalytic Council’s Lifetime Achievement Award. She was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (FRSL) in 2019.
She continues to help many individuals and couples from her practice in London.
Galit Atlas
Dr. Galit Atlas is the author of the international bestseller Emotional Inheritance: A Therapist, Her Patients and the Legacy of Trauma. She is a psychoanalyst and clinical supervisor in private practice in New York City, and a faculty member of the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. A leader in the field of relational psychoanalysis, Dr. Atlas is a recipient of the André François Award, the Gradiva Award, and the NADTA Research Award. Atlas's work has been translated into 29 languages. She teaches and lectures throughout the United States and internationally.
- Psychotherapists
- Couple and Family Psychotherapists
- Psychoanalysts
- Psychologists
- Clinical Psychologists
- Psychiatrists
- GPs
- Counsellors
- Social workers
- Teachers/Educators
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Participants will demonstrate an understanding of the mechanisms through which individuals inherit, hold, and process information that they don't remember or haven't personally experienced, exploring the impact of these processes on their lives.
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Participants will analyze the concept of intergenerational transmission of trauma, recognising how emotional pain, memories, and secrets from previous generations influence their own experiences and shape their lives, even when not explicitly communicated within the family.
Standard Registration: £40.00
Trainee, NHS staff and Third Sector: £34.00
Group Rates (for 4 or more): Contact makeritafaumui@trtogether.com for customised pricing.
Trainee discount: To qualify for this offer you need to be taking a course which provides core practitioner training in counselling or psychotherapy that is at least 1 year full time or two years part time and recognised by the BACP or UKCP. TR Together reserve the right to ask to see evidence of training being undertaken.
Alumni: If you are a TR Alumni (TRAPC member) please email anitabruz@tavistockrelationships.org for a discount code to add at checkout
Your CPD certificate will be available to download from your TR Together account within 48 hours of the event.