Transcending Shadows

Based on interviews with three generations of three families, this book clarifies why the Cultural Revolution in China had a uniquely traumatic impact on those affected, and shows the forms this trauma has taken in the lives of their second and third generations at both inter-subjective and intra-psychic levels.

Yao Lin, PhD, studied psychology at Wuhan University; trained in clinical psychology at China University of Geosciences and Wuhan Mental Hospital; and received her PhD from the Department of Anthropology and Cultural Research at University of Bremen. Dr. Lin is a private practice psychotherapist and a psychoanalyst in training as a candidate of the International Psychoanalysis Association (IPA).

Part One 1. Introduction Part Two: Theoretical Framework 2. Trauma Theories in Psychoanalysis 3. A Selective Survey of Literature on the Trans-Generational Transmission of Trauma Part Three: My Investigation 4. Research Field: The Cultural Revolution and its Cultural and Social Uniqueness 5. My Field Work in China 6. Case 1 - Hua's Family: Guo, Hua and Rui 7. Case 2 - Qing's Family: Hong, Qing and Yang 8. Case 3 - Ying's Family: Lan, Ying and Mei 9. Discussion and Conclusion