Kalayjian, A., & Weisberg, M. (2002, August). Generational Impact of Mass Trauma: The Post- Ottoman Turkish Genocide of the Armenians. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.

Abstract

The attempted destruction of the Armenian people by the Ottoman Turkish Government from 1895-1915 not only cost one-and-a half million Armenian lives but created massive trauma for many of those who survived. This chapter explores the physical, psychosocial, and spiritual impact of Genocide on the offspring of survivors. Concomitantly, the authors utilize therapeutic modalities to work with this form of generational transmission of mass trauma.