The Emotional Inheritance Workbook

What Is Your Emotional Inheritance?

We all carry our parents’ and grandparents’ histories within us. But how much of these histories are we really aware of? And how have these histories made us who we are? In her bestselling book, Emotional Inheritance: A Therapist, Her Patients, and the Legacy of Trauma, Dr. Galit Atlas showed us the many ways that we inherit the experiences of the past, whether those experiences have been spoken or kept secret from us.

Now, with The Emotional Inheritance Workbook, Dr. Atlas gives us the tools we need to explore our own emotional inheritance. By answering the questions in this workbook, and by reflecting on the answers, we can begin a lifelong process of self-knowledge, a process that can illuminate our lives in new and surprising ways.

Meet the Author…

Dr. Galit Atlas is a psychoanalyst and clinical supervisor in private practice in Manhattan. She is a clinical assistant professor on the faculty of the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy & Psychoanalysis and faculty at the National Training Program (NTP) and the Four-Year Adult training program at the National Institute for the Psychotherapies (NIP) in New York City.

As an essayist and author, Atlas has published numerous articles and book chapters that focus primarily on gender and sexuality. She is the author of The Enigma of Desire: Sex, Longing and Belonging in Psychoanalysis (Routledge, October 2015) and Dramatic Dialogues (co-authored with Lewis Aron, Routledge, November 2017). She is the editor and a contributor to When Minds Meet: The Work of Lewis Aron (Routledge, November 2020). Her last book, Emotional Inheritance: A Therapist, Her Patients and The Legacy of Trauma, is an international bestseller, and translated into 27 languages. It won the Gradiva Award for Best Book of 2022.

Atlas was the recipient of the Andre’ Francois Research Award and the NADTA Research Award. She is a senior editor of the book series New Directions in Contemporary Psychoanalysis from Confer Books and Karnac Books. She has served on the board of directors of the Division of Psychoanalysis (39) of the American Psychological Association and is currently on the editorial boards of Psychoanalytic Dialogues and Psychoanalytic Perspectives. Dr. Atlas lectures throughout the United States and internationally.