Freud wrote to Binswanger on the anniversary of his daughter's death, -...we will remain inconsolable...I don't care for my grandchildren anymore, but find no joy in life anymore.-

The author poses the question in this book; what legacy does grief, loss, trauma have upon the second and third generations? When Freud wrote -I don't care for my grandchildren anymore-, what impact did his agonized grief have upon them?

Prophecy Coles has written this meditation on the ideas that have evolved in response to this question over her thirty years as a psychoanalytic...

For this volume,the authorhas brought together a group of distinguished writers to explore a wide range of issues affecting sibling relationships. This exciting collection of papers addresses a long neglected subject in psychoanalytic thinking. Since Sigmund Freud, psychoanalytic attention has focused firmly on the Oedipal triangle and

This book describes different instances of trauma that may have occurred several generations ago. It explores the work of several psychoanalysts who have written on the negative effect that unknown or unremembered grandparents can have upon the life of their grandchildren.

This book concentrates upon families where there is more than one child. It distinguishes between a sibling transference and a parent/child transference and illustrates the interweaving of the developmental strands between the two types of transference.