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Commentary: Intergenerational transmission of trauma: The infant's experience

✍ Scribed by Theodore J. Gaensbauer


Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2003
Tongue
English
Weight
211 KB
Volume
24
Category
Article
ISSN
0163-9641

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✦ Synopsis


This case-study presents in detail the clinical assessment of a 29-year-old mother and her daughter who first presented to infant mental health specialists at age 16 months, with a hospital record suggesting the presence of a dyadic disturbance since age eight months. Data from psychiatric and neurological assessments, as well as observational measures of child and mother, are reviewed with attention to issues of disturbed attachment, intergenerational trauma, and cultural factors for this innercity Latino dyad. Severe maternal affect dysregulation in the wake of chronic, early-onset violent-trauma exposure manifested as psychogenic seizures, referred to in the mother's native Spanish as "ataques de nervios," the latter, an idiom of distress, commonly associated with childhood trauma and dissociation. We explore the mechanisms by which the mothers' reexperiencing of violent traumatic experience, together with physiologic hyperarousal and associated negative affects, are communicated to the very young child and the clinician-observer via action and language from moment to moment during the assessment process. The article concludes with a discussion of diagnostic and treatment implications by Drs. Marshall, Gaensbauer, and Zeanah.

RESUMEN: Este estudio presenta en detalle el caso de la evaluacio ´n clı ´nica de una madre de 29 an ˜os y su hija, la cual se les presento ´primero a los especialistas de la salud mental infantil a la edad de 16 meses, cuando ya tenı ´a un historial clı ´nico que hacı ´a pensar en la presencia de trastornos en la afectividad desde que tenı ´a 8 meses. En este contexto, llevamos a cabo un estudio de los datos proporcionados por medio de las evaluaciones siquia ´tricas y neurolo ´gicas, ası ´como tambie ´n de las medidas obtenidas por medio de la observacio ´n de la nin ˜a y su madre. Atencio ´n especial se le presta a los asuntos relacionados con los trastornos de la afectividad, el trauma intergeneracional, y los factores culturales para esta pareja hispana de madre e hija de un barrio del centro de la ciudad. Fuertes irregularidades en los sentimientos maternales, como resultado del haber estado expuesta a tempranos ataques de violencia trauma ´ticos, se manifestaban como ataques sicoge ´nicos, a los cuales la madre se referı ´a como "ataques de nervios," indicando con esta frase un afliccio ´n comu ´nmente asociada con traumas y disociaciones en la nin ˜ez.


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