What We Inherit: Family Trauma, Art, and the Stories Objects Tell
In this week’s Practitioner podcast, Martha Frick Symington Sanger, great-granddaughter of Henry Clay Frick, explores how family trauma can live on through stories, silences, and the objects passed from one generation to the next.
Investigating Family Lineage
Unless the Kardashian family is one of your clients (and The Practitioner sincerely hopes this isn’t the case), families you serve probably don’t have camera crews following them around 24/7, video-documenting their every move. Don’t worry--I’m not suggesting you set up your clients with reality show deals of their own. But I AM recommending you carefully listen to the sage words preached by Judith Kolva--author of this week’s companion article on encouraging clients to chronicle family histories by interviewing family members about generations past. We’re not talking about doing a cursory, slapdash job, here. We’re talking