Intergenerational Trauma
When Can I Go Home? (Dementia, Fathers and the Things That Cannot Be Repaired)
When an ageing father begins to lose his memory to Alzheimer’s disease, his son is forced to confront not only the demands of care, but a lifetime of unresolved feeling. When Can I Go Home? explores memory, grief, paternal recognition, family history and the painful complexity of loving someone who was never easy to reach.
Read MoreThe Red Kite
A fictional psychodynamic story exploring parentification, childhood responsibility and the lasting impact of growing up too soon. Through the image of a Red Kite circling high above the countryside, Clara begins to reflect upon the roles she adopted in order to survive and the question of what happens when those roles become difficult to put down.
Read MoreMarried to a Narcissist
He believed he was living with a narcissist. The controlling moments, the lack of empathy, the recurring arguments all seemed to point in one direction. But what happens when therapy begins to reveal that the qualities we struggle with most in others may also exist, quietly, within ourselves?
Read MoreThe Quiet Inheritance
Clinical Reflections on Trauma, Attachment, and Family Patterns (Names and identifying details have been altered to protect confidentiality, and the clinical material has been sensitively adapted to ensure anonymity). The Inheritance of Emotion: How Our Past Shapes Our Present Intergenerational trauma describes the emotional patterns, beliefs, and coping strategies that are passed down through families,…
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