How Nature and Nurture Contribute to Intergenerational Trauma
Psychology Today | 27.10.2026 16:06
spurred his curiosity: “But how does someone’s, say, war trauma that happened to them get passed to another generation?” More wondering emanated from the passenger seat about next generations getting vicarious trauma from hearing war stories. Then something about perhaps genes can be altered by trauma to encourage hypervigilance and aggressive reactivity in offspring as a preemptive strike against potential trauma of their own.
