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Through a review of the literature, the paper attempts to illustrate how an individual's distress can result from the convergence of personally and consciously experienced traumatic situations, situations experienced completely outside awareness (in foetal and perinatal life), contact with significant
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others' traumatic memories, and contact with traumatic memories of previous generations. This is followed by a clinical case in which the significant events and related experiences in the three areas (personal, of the spouse, transgenerational), the disorders and defensive operations in their connection with the events themselves, are highlighted. The gradual emergence in analysis of the memory of these events and situations, previously not entirely absent yet disowned from an emotional viewpoint and in its various implications, appears to be connected with a resolution of symptoms and substantial changes in the life of the individual concerned.
KEY WORDS: Dissociation, transgenerational, transpsychic, trauma.