Identity, Attachment and Resilience ─ Exploring Three Generations of a Polish Family

This book examines psychological issues around trauma, stress, and resilience using qualitative and case-study methods to illustrate key scientific concepts through real-life scenarios. The author uses her own family history across three generations to examine issues of trauma and resilience as evidenced by individuals living through times of political conflict and instability. By exploring these topics in this way, this book provides new messages about identity, belonging, cultural minority status, family ties and group resilience. This is a unique account that will appeal to students of psychology, history, and other social sciences, researchers, and general readers.

Antonia Bifulco is co-director at the Centre for Abuse and Trauma Studies at Middlesex University, London. She is a psychologist with expertise in lifespan development, and utilizes an attachment model to examine relationships. She has had extensive research funding and publishes on issues concerning childhood and adult adversity, stress/trauma and clinical depression.