ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a study of the transmission of trauma in virtually any direction. It discusses the role of unacknowledged and unacknowledgeable grief in the transmission of trauma. The chapter addresses the process of recognizing trauma transmission in oneself as a crucial component of studying and healing trauma. It explores disenfranchised grief and trauma transmission, trauma transmission in political succession, lateral trauma transmission, recognizing trauma transmission in oneself, concurrent "vertical" and "horizontal" transmission, and the possibility of "reverse" vertical trauma transmission. The chapter suggests that self-analysis has severe limits, and that it is in the psychoanalytic dyad that trauma is first transferentially enacted and recognized. It examines the counterintuitive idea that vertical transmission might occur in the reverse of the usual direction, that is, from younger to older, or from younger to older members of the same cohort, such as in organizational workplaces.
