The book combines for the first time attachment theory, regulation attachment therapy, and the intergenerational transmission of trauma, showing how the clinical therapeutic process of "going beyond trauma" may result in forgiveness of past relationships and other reparatory practices in which self and other, both internal and external, are integrated and reconnected, opening the subject to creativity and new meaning in life. From early relational trauma to abuse and neglect, to massive social trauma such as war and genocide, the most recent psychoanalytic theories on trauma highlight the relevance of attachment on one side and intergenerational transmission of trauma on the other. The appropriate psychoanalytic treatment of traumatisation of human origin therefore needs to address the specific relational issues, trying to repair precisely the connection between self and other, thanks to the clinician's active participation in the exchange. (amazon)
now, paradoxically, she wrote in 2018:
I will exclude from consideration the following because they do not contribute to the formation of personality disorders (or might only be cumulative elements towards personality disorders): all violent and traumatic events occurring just once (e.g., rape or attempted murder); accidents in which there is no human agency and intention involved (e.g., an earthquake or a car accident); and, most relevant, I exclude what I term the “third level” of trauma, or massive social trauma (Figure 1.2), such as atrocities, extermination of groups, genocides, wars, and traumata striking entire populations (Mucci, 2008, 2013).
Mucci, Clara. Borderline Bodies: Affect Regulation Therapy for Personality Disorders (p. 4). W. W. Norton & Company. Kindle edition.
