ABSTRACT

Introduction: Transgenerational trauma is a theory asserting that traumatic experiences, including grief and loss, can be transferred from the initial generation of survivors to subsequent generations via complex post-traumatic stress disorder mechanisms. This applies to persecutory circumstances and genocidal events, which leave their mark and continue to resonate actively within the consciousness of descendants.

Method: This article explores the role of analytical music therapy in working with transgenerational trauma. Illustrations of this work are provided via two first-person, retrospective vignettes of the author’s self-experiences in analytical music therapy, rooted in the author’s Jewish cultural identity, and in the inherited experiences of ancestors who faced existential threats of ethnic persecution in Eastern Europe during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The reflective process employed here serves to contribute to the development of a larger theoretical perspective on the role of music as a matrix for accessing, confronting, and working through elements of transgenerational trauma.

Results: Each vignette provides ways in which the author’s own transgenerational trauma – as it manifested in his everyday life in various ways – was accessed and engaged through the relational, creative spaces of analytical music therapy. Each vignette also addresses how certain transpersonal resources discovered within these working spaces – each one meaningfully reflecting certain expressions of Jewish mysticism and spirituality – were mobilized by the author with personal and professional impact.

Discussion: Clinical and cultural implications for future practice and research in this area are considered.

摘要

简介：跨代创伤是一种理论，认为创伤经历（包括悲伤和损失）可以通过复杂的创伤后应激障碍机制从最初的幸存者转移到后代。这适用于迫害情况和种族灭绝事件，这些事件留下了自己的印记，并继续在后代的意识中引起共鸣。

方法：本文探讨分析性音乐疗法在治疗跨代创伤中的作用。通过两个第一人称的回顾性短片，对作者在分析音乐疗法中的自我经历进行回顾，提供了这些作品的插图，这些经历植根于作者的犹太文化身份，以及祖先在东欧遭受民族迫害的威胁的传承经历。在十九世纪末和二十世纪初。这里采用的反思性过程有助于为音乐作为访问，面对和处理跨代创伤要素的矩阵的角色提供更大的理论视野。

结果：每个小插图都提供了一种途径，可以通过分析音乐治疗的相关性，创造性空间来访问和参与作者自己的跨世代创伤（在他的日常生活中以各种方式表现出来）。每个小插图还论述了在这些工作空间中发现的某些超个人资源（每一个都有意义地反映了犹太神秘主义和灵性的某些表达）是作者动员的，具有个人和专业影响。

讨论：考虑了对该领域未来实践和研究的临床和文化意义。