The International Bestseller

“A powerful, clear, deeply sympathetic exploration of the legacy of intergenerational traumatic experience” - Dani Shapiro, author of Inheritance

“Atlas's book is full of light and beauty, offering many insightful observations and tools to begin to dismantle the stories we live with, stories that are not truly ours” - Oprah Daily

Past family trauma can keep us unwittingly connected to the past, affecting our lives in ways we don't always recognize and preventing us from living to our full potential.

In this transformative book, award-winning psychoanalyst Dr. Galit Atlas reveals the legacy of intergenerational trauma. Combining her patients' stories, her own stories, and decades of research, she shows how the people we love and those who raised us live within us - how we inherit their emotional pain - and helps us identify the connections between the difficulties in our lives and the “emotional inheritance” we all carry. For only by following the traces left by these ghosts can we truly change our future.

Pages: 240, Year of Publication: 0611, Dimensions: 12.6x12.6cm