Nigel Williams on Transgenerational Trauma

Counsellors and Psychotherapists often think about formative experiences, the significance of the past in the present and how this manifests in and informs therapeutic work. We also are challenged to think about how the social and cultural gets into this work that may not come from the family of origin yet be formative.

In this workshop we will identify how to think about and work with memory in shorter (intergenerational) and longer (transgenerational) spans of time. The generations while biological and associated with care are often involved with processes of change and succession within society including organisations and professions. From this point of view the passage of generations in time has to do with the sociology of knowledge and affects deeply how we relate to and solve psychological and social problems at any one moment.

Nigel Williams is a psychotherapist, sociologist and academic at the University of the West of England, UK, with forty years’ experience in practice and many years of experience training psychotherapists in psychodynamic approaches to therapy and psychosocial approaches to research.

For a general introduction to his work on the Generations click link below:

https://preview.palgrave.com/gp/blogs/social-sciences/williams