Mark Wolynn It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to

《It Didn't Start with You》是一部开创性的心理学著作，揭示了代际创伤如何通过家族系统隐秘传递并深刻影响后代的身心健康。作者马克·沃林恩基于前沿的表观遗传学和创伤研究，提出抑郁、焦虑等心理问题可能源于祖辈未解决的创伤，而非单纯的个人经历或生化失衡。书中独创的"核心语言疗法"通过分析日常用语模式、绘制三代家谱和引导意象对话，帮助读者识别并打破创伤的跨代循环。尤其可贵的是，作者将复杂的神经科学发现转化为可操作的自助工具，为那些对传统治疗无效的"顽固症状"提供了新的疗愈视角。尽管部分机制仍需更多科学验证，但本书无疑为理解心理健康的代际维度开辟了富有希望的道路，既是现代人探索自我根源的指南，也是心理工作者不可或缺的参考。 
 
书名：It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle

作者：Mark Wolynn

简介：A groundbreaking approach to transforming traumatic legacies passed down in families over generations, by an acclaimed expert in the field
 
Depression. Anxiety. Chronic Pain. Phobias. Obsessive thoughts. The evidence is the roots of these difficulties may not reside in our immediate life experience or in chemical imbalances in our brains—but in the lives of our parents, grandparents, and even great-grandparents. The latest scientific research, now making headlines, supports what many have long intuited—that traumatic experience can be passed down through generations. It Didn’t Start with You builds on the work of leading experts in post-traumatic stress, including Mount Sinai School of Medicine neuroscientist Rachel Yehuda and psychiatrist Bessel van der Kolk, author of The Body Keeps the Score . Even if the person who suffered the original trauma has died, or the story has been forgotten or silenced, memory and feelings can live on. These emotional legacies are often hidden, encoded in everything from gene expression to everyday language, and they play a far greater role in our emotional and physical health than has ever before been understood.
 
As a pioneer in the field of inherited family trauma, Mark Wolynn has worked with individuals and groups on a therapeutic level for over twenty years. It Didn’t Start with You offers a pragmatic and prescriptive guide to his method, the Core Language Approach. Diagnostic self-inventories provide a way to uncover the fears and anxieties conveyed through everyday words, behaviors, and physical symptoms. Techniques for developing a genogram or extended family tree create a map of experiences going back through the generations. And visualization, active imagination, and direct dialogue create pathways to reconnection, integration, and reclaiming life and health. It Didn’t Start With You is a transformative approach to resolving longstanding difficulties that in many cases, traditional therapy, drugs, or other interventions have not had the capacity to touch.