Sunday Dialogue Program: Anne and Krystyna: Two Cases of Intergenerational Transmission of Trauma
September 29 @ 1:00 pm – 3:30 pm
Sunday, September 29, 2024, 1:00-3:30 pm (EDT), on Zoom
3 CE credit hours for Social Workers, Mental Health Counselors, and Licensed Psychoanalysts holding licenses in New York State
Psychoanalyst Krystyna Sanderson will discuss and illustrate the intergenerational transmission of trauma passed from mother to daughter. Epigenetically transmitted trauma is manifested in a range of behavioral disturbances such as identity issues, anxiety, guilt, hypervigilance, and attachment issues such as the inability to be physically and emotionally close to another person in a love relationship. The presentation is partly based on the book Memorial Candles: Children of the Holocaust by Dina Wardi, an Israeli psychotherapist who treated the children of Holocaust survivors for twenty years. The book details the effects of untreated trauma in parents being passed on to their children.
To illustrate and substantiate the theories of intergenerational trauma with its multiple and varied psychic impacts, the presenter will contrast her own trauma history with that of a woman named Anne. Sanderson’s mother, Jadwiga, was a non-Jewish Pole, who lived through the German occupation of Poland, including the bombing of Warsaw during the Warsaw Uprising of 1944. Anne is the daughter of Sima, a Jewish woman who survived in Poland during World War II by passing as a non-Jewish Pole. The material for this discussion is based on psychoanalytic research interviews conducted by Dr. Sanderson between 1987 and 2023 with all the women concerned.
The topics of recovery and resilience will be explored based on the book The Power of Witnessing: Reflections, Reverberations, and Traces of the Holocaust: Trauma, Psychoanalysis, and the Living Mind by Nancy Goodman.
Learning Objectives:
- Participants will learn how war trauma affects the human psyche.
- Participants will gain insight into the ways in which trauma experienced by parents is transmitted to their children.
- Participants will get an understanding of the ways epigenetically transmitted trauma is manifested in a range of behavioral disturbances.
- Participants will gain an understanding of how processing trauma by witness fosters recovery and resilience.
Krystyna Sanderson, Psy. D., LP, is a psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City. She is also an instructor at the Psychoanalytic Training Institute. She is a supervisor of psychoanalytic students and a dissertation adviser of doctoral students and writes and lectures regularly on topics dealing with psychoanalysis in relation to art, spirituality, and the application of psychoanalytic principles to social and historical phenomena. Dr. Sanderson is a contributing author of The Encyclopedia of Psychology and Religion and the author of a photo essay, Light at Ground Zero: St. Paul’s Chapel After 9/11. She is a member of the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis (NAAP) and the Postgraduate Psychoanalytic Society & Institute
A zoom link will be sent to registrants 1-2 days prior to the event.
For further information or questions please send an email to: Russell Merritt, LCSW: [email protected]
This program is approved for 3 CE Credit Hours.
MPG Consulting is an approved provider of continuing education for Licensed Social Workers (#0119) and for Licensed Psychoanalysts (3P-0034). MPG Consulting, LCSW, PLLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health.