To Find a Sentence of One’s Own [re: M. Wolynn: „Didn't Start with You: Has Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle”] Cover Image

Odnaleźć swoje wewnętrzne zdanie [dot. M. Wolynn: „Nie zaczęło się od ciebie. Jak dziedziczona trauma wpływa na to, kim jesteśmy, i jak zakończyć ten proces”]
To Find a Sentence of One’s Own [re: M. Wolynn: „Didn't Start with You: Has Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle”]

Author(s): Agnieszka Wójtowicz-Zając
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Psychology, Essay|Book Review |Scientific Life, Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, Book-Review
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: trauma; posttrauma; psychology; Polish literature after 1989

Summary/Abstract: The work is a discussion of the book „It Didn’t Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle” by Mark Wolynn, an American psychologist who deals with the therapy of inherited trauma. The author presents Wolynn’s basic assumptions regarding trauma and post-trauma and its therapeutic system and she emphasizes the popularizing aspect of the work. Afterwards, she indicates the possibilities and directions of interpretation given by Wolynn’s theory in the context of contemporary Polish prose that regards war traumas and is written by the so-called second generation.

  • Issue Year: 2017
  • Issue No: 2 (10)
  • Page Range: 249-256
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Polish