Trauma, shame, and secret making: being a family without a narrative

'Trauma, Shame, and Secret Making' provides a descriptive, qualitative inquiry into a family's unsuccessful attempts across generations to repress the memories of an early life trauma.

Broad in its scope, it explores more than 100 years, offering students and professionals invaluable insight into the consequences of prolonged narrative suppression in the social life of people.

The book models a converging interdisciplinary approach to inquiry across specializations spanning traumatology, family therapy, psychology, psychiatry and social work.

The model is consistent with an evolving paradigm of medical, public health and social service practice based on biopsychosocial evaluation of all patients.