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What keeps us from having the relationships we want? Why can’t we find the right partner? Why do we repeat the same painful patterns? How can we keep love alive? The children we once were live inside us, and our early relationships are the templates for our later emotional and sexual...

In the last decade, contemporary psychoanalysis and empirical research have expanded the literature on epigenetics and what is called 'intergenerational transmission of trauma', referring to the way trauma is transmitted from generation to generation and held in our minds and bodies, sometimes in uncanny ways. Emotional Inheritance describes the many ways in which we can identify the ghosts of the past that hold us back and interfere with our lives.

A NATIONAL BESTSELLER For readers of Irvin D. Yalom, Esther Perel, and Oliver Sacks, a profound and “deeply humane” (Meghan O’Rourke, bestselling author of The Invisible Kingdom) book by psychoanalyst and internationally bestselling author of Emotional Inheritance Dr. Galit Atlas that...