ABSTRACT
The stage and severity of people's memories of trauma are influential in the individual's state of mind, which determines the impact of on-going stressors and which might then have a different emotional impact on each individual. The ways in which the effects of trauma are regulated during recall are related to narrative, according to whether the traumatic association is direct or dominated and transmitted by generational relation. The intergenerational transmission of trauma, and of secure, insecure, and disorganized patterns of relatedness, together with characteristic variable affects, will be reflected, in part, by patterns of parents and grandparents experiences and their historical and socio-cultural contexts, both conscious and unconscious. The few remaining survivors of the Armenian genocide have felt that the severity of the tragedy is so strong that they could not talk about what happened to them. Collective cross-generational trauma transmission across generations can be divided into collective traumas.
