Emotional Inheritance – Galit Atlas

In our first in-person event since the lockdown, Dr Galit Atlas and Carole Shadbolt will discuss ideas from Galit’s latest book “Emotional Inheritance: A Therapist, her patients and the Legacy of Trauma”.

They will talk, among other things, about how inherited trauma can be unconsciously transmitted from one generation to the next, often in quiet but far-reaching ways, and how as part of this process, it comes to rest in our bodies and our minds, where it is felt and responded to as if it were our own.

Galit will then leave and relational psychotherapists, Judy Yellin, Aaron Balick, and Carole Shadbolt will continue the discussion together and with the audience, exploring what this means for the practice of psychotherapy, including finding ways of uncovering, attenuating, and giving voice to the secrets that are currently being hosted inside of us and that our ancestors have held for so long.

There will be plenty of time for questions and comments and the opportunity to purchase a signed copy of Galit’s book.

Dr Galit Atlas is a psychoanalyst and clinical supervisor in private practice in Manhattan. She is a clinical assistant professor on the faculty of the New York University Postdoctoral and psychotherapy programs. She has published numerous articles and book chapters that focus primarily on gender and sexuality and lectures throughout the United States and internationally. Galit was the recipient of the Andre’ Francois Research Award and the NADTA Research Award. She is a senior editor of the book series New Directions in Contemporary Psychoanalysis from Confer Books and Karnac Books. She has served on the board of directors of the Division of Psychoanalysis (39) of the American Psychological Association and on the editorial boards of Psychoanalytic Dialogues and Psychoanalytic Perspectives.

Carole Shadbolt lives and practices in the United Kingdom. In a long career, she originally trained as a social worker and worked both as a generic as well as a specialist psychiatric social worker at The Maudsley Hospital part of the Institute of Psychiatry in London. She qualified as a Transactional Analyst Metanoia under the tutelage of Petruska Clarkson, Sue Fish and Maria Gilbert. Carole worked as a tutor for many years at Metanoia Institute on their MSc in Relational Transactional Analysis programme.  She maintains an independent psychotherapy and supervisory practice in Oxfordshire. A relational psychotherapist by instinct, Carole is a published author and a founder member of the International Association of Relational Transactional Analysis and serves on their Steering group. She has been “out” since the late seventies and her abiding interest is in LGBTQ + issues and diversity. She is currently writing about the invisibility and trauma of chronic mental illness.

As numbers are limited, bookings will close on Saturday 2^nd March a week before the event begins.  

Ticket sales will close on Saturday 2nd March at noon.

IARTA members are invited to attend this event early at 9:30 am, as we want to celebrate our first in-person event with a group exercise led by Charlotte Sills – Registration will take place at 9 am.

This event will take place at the 

NVCO, Society Buildings, 8 All Saints Street N1 9RL