Trauma, Shame, and Secret Making

Francis Joseph Harrington, MDiv, MEd, has spent more than three decades working closely with individuals and families adapting to stress, first as a priest in the Archdiocese of Toronto, and later as a staff psychologist in the department of psychiatry at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center and as a school psychologist in Maryland.  

Introduction: One Hundred and Thirty Years in a Family’s Life Period I (1876 – 1913): When Men of Science Listened to a Woman’s Terror 1: Pierre Janet’s Inquiry into Hysteria 2: The Straw and the Camel’s Back: Rose (1876 – 1942) 3: Disclosures of a Participant Observer Period II (1914 – 1945): When Men of War Listened to Each Other 4: Abram Kardiner’s Inquiry into the Traumatic Neuroses of War 5: Rose and Her Children: Aileen (1910 – 1983) and Leonard (1914 – 1971) 6: Dreams of a Participant Observer Period III (1946 – 1979): When We Listened to Post-War Families and Their Children 7: The Inquiries of John Sigal and Salvador Minuchin Chapter 8: Aileen and her Children – Joseph (1948) and Mary Anne (1951 – 2007) 9: Abulia and the Moment of Truth for the Participant Observer Period IV (1980 – 1999): When We Named Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) 10: The Inquiries of Judith Herman and Bessel van der Kolk 11: A Fourth Generation - Kat (1987) and Dimitri (1988) 12: Children and the Participant Observer Period V (2000 and Beyond): When Research Went Where We Had Not Dared Go 13: Michael Meaney, Eric Nestler, Michael Skinner and Epigenetics Chapter 14: Death by Entanglement 15: The Pitfall of the Participant Observer Part VI: From Mini-Inquiry to Mega-Investigation 16: The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study 17: If Rose Answered the ACE Questions 18: Conclusions of the Participant Observer Afterword: Freud and Clergy Sexual Abuse