We are sorry to announce that this event has been cancelled. The next OPS talk is scheduled for 18th February 2025.

This event will be a discussion of Atlas’ book Emotional Inheritance. It will focus on intergenerational trauma and emotional material that is passed down from generation to generation. It will illustrate how patient and analyst enter each other’s inner world and discover themselves as participants within each other’s psychic life and introduce a relational model to thinking about the ways two subjectivities collude in promoting dissociation and the ways inherited trauma both finds shelter and comes to life in the analytic dyad. We will discuss the legacy of trauma, the regulation of aggression, the power of attachment and the many faces of our emotional inheritance.

Dr. Atlas is on the faculty at NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. She is the author of the books The Enigma of Desire: Sex, Longing and Belonging in Psychoanalysis and Dramatic Dialogue: Contemporary Clinical Practice (co-authored with Lewis Aron), and the editor and contributor to When Minds Meet: The Work of Lewis Aron. Her last book Emotional Inheritance: A Therapist, Her Patients and the Legacy of Trauma is an international bestseller, translated into 26 languages. Atlas serves on the editorial boards of Psychoanalytic Dialogues and of Psychoanalytic Perspectives. She is a recipient of the André François Award, the NADTA Research Award and the Gradiva Award. She is a psychoanalyst and clinical supervisor in private practice in New York City and teaches and lectures throughout the United States and internationally.

Zoom webinar/ On-line interview by Diana Rosdolsky followed by group discussion on a Saturday evening because of the time difference.