Inherited Wounds - Healing Transgenerational Trauma with EMDR
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Hall B4
| Sunday, June 7, 2026 |
| 14:00 - 15:30 |
| Hall B4 |
Overview
Katharina Drexler (Germany)
Speaker
Katharina Drexler
President
Emdria Deutschland e.V.
Inherited wounds - Healing transgenerational Trauma with EMDR
14:00 - 15:30Abstract
Authors
Katharina Drexler1
1Practice for psychosomatic medicine and psychiatry, Kartaeuserhof 24, 50678 Koeln, Germany
Unresolved trauma can be passed on to subsequent generations to a significant extent. We have known this at least since studies on children and grandchildren of war trauma, Holocaust survivors and the genocide in Ruanda. (Drexler K. 2013)
In addition, of course, non-collective, individual traumas can also be passed on to subsequent generations.
Katharina Drexler has been giving trainings on the diagnosis and treatment of inherited wounds since 2005 and has published two books and numerous journal articles in which she presents the EMDR therapy approach for transgenerational trauma she developed.
(Drexler K. 2013: Transgenerational weitergegebene Traumata der Behandlung zugänglich machen. ZPPM,1, S. 65-73; Drexler K. 2017: Ererbte Wunden heilen. Therapie der transgenerationalen Traumatisierung. Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta; Drexler, K. 2020: Ererbte Wunden erkennen. Wie Traumata der Eltern und Großeltern unser Leben prägen. Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta.)
The workshop initially focuses on conveying the scientific background, including epigenetic findings, and how to identify inherited wounds. Through video demonstrations participants have the opportunity to learn about the detailed steps of her approach to transgenerational trauma processing with EMDR.
Learning objectives:
Get to know criteria for diagnosing transgenerational trauma,
Learn about understanding of the distinction between personal and transgenerational traumatization,
Learn an EMDR approach to focus selection and trauma processing that is adapted to the specific circumstances of transgenerational trauma.
Key words:
Transgenerational trauma, inherited wounds, collective trauma, genocide
Katharina Drexler1
1Practice for psychosomatic medicine and psychiatry, Kartaeuserhof 24, 50678 Koeln, Germany
Unresolved trauma can be passed on to subsequent generations to a significant extent. We have known this at least since studies on children and grandchildren of war trauma, Holocaust survivors and the genocide in Ruanda. (Drexler K. 2013)
In addition, of course, non-collective, individual traumas can also be passed on to subsequent generations.
Katharina Drexler has been giving trainings on the diagnosis and treatment of inherited wounds since 2005 and has published two books and numerous journal articles in which she presents the EMDR therapy approach for transgenerational trauma she developed.
(Drexler K. 2013: Transgenerational weitergegebene Traumata der Behandlung zugänglich machen. ZPPM,1, S. 65-73; Drexler K. 2017: Ererbte Wunden heilen. Therapie der transgenerationalen Traumatisierung. Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta; Drexler, K. 2020: Ererbte Wunden erkennen. Wie Traumata der Eltern und Großeltern unser Leben prägen. Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta.)
The workshop initially focuses on conveying the scientific background, including epigenetic findings, and how to identify inherited wounds. Through video demonstrations participants have the opportunity to learn about the detailed steps of her approach to transgenerational trauma processing with EMDR.
Learning objectives:
Get to know criteria for diagnosing transgenerational trauma,
Learn about understanding of the distinction between personal and transgenerational traumatization,
Learn an EMDR approach to focus selection and trauma processing that is adapted to the specific circumstances of transgenerational trauma.
Key words:
Transgenerational trauma, inherited wounds, collective trauma, genocide
