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. Atlas teaches and lectures throughout the United States and internationally.
Dr. Atlas was the recipient of the Andre’ Francois Research Award and the NADTA Research Award. She has published three books for clinicians and numerous articles and book chapters that focus primarily on gender and sexuality. Her New York Times publication “A Tale of Two Twins” was the winner of a 2016 Gradiva Award.
In her new international bestseller Emotional Inheritance: A Therapist, Her Patients and The Legacy of Trauma (Little, Brown, Spark, 2022) Atlas entwines the stories of her patients, her own stories, and decades of research to help us identify the links between our life struggles and the “emotional inheritance” we all carry.
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
Emotional Inheritance
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The people we love and those who raised us live inside us; we experience their emotional pain, we dream their memories, and these things shape our lives in ways we don’t always recognize. Emotional Inheritance is about family secrets that keep us from living to our full potential, create gaps between what we want for ourselves and what we are able to have, and haunt us like ghosts.
"An illuminating book."
—Lori Gottlieb, New York Times bestselling author of Maybe You Should Talk To Someone
"Beautiful, artistic and elegant."
—Bruce D. Perry, MD, PhD, coauthor of the #1 New York Times bestseller
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"Emotional Inheritance makes clear that Galit Atlas is not only a gifted psychoanalyst, but a gifted writer as well. I loved this book and was stirred by it."
—Dani Shapiro, New York Times - bestselling author of Inheritance
"Dr. Atlas's book reads like a propulsive page-turner, while also offering deep psychological insights about inherited trauma and family secrets."
—Christie Tate, New York Times - bestselling author of Group
"An intimate, textured, and compassionate exploration of intergenerational trauma."
—Jon Kabat-Zinn, author of The Healing Power of Mindfulness