Following on from the first two books in his 'Genesis Trilogy', Lawrence
Swaim tells the amazing stories of people who broke the trauma bond, and
created new lives for themselves. Including, among others: Norman
Finkelstein (whose parents were both Holocaust survivors) who broke free
from the inter-generational trauma in his family system by exposing
extensive corruption in his community--and in American society--and by
working for social justice in the Middle East; Eric Lomax, a former
British soldier in the far east, who broke free from his haunting
traumatic memories by meeting and reconciling with the Japanese man who
had tortured him fifty years before, with the help of his brave and
insightful wife; Gerry Adams who, together with his IRA and Sinn Fein
comrades, broke free of the trauma of Northern Ireland's civil war,
finally redeeming himself by questioning some of his own assumptions and
then dedicating himself to achieving peace in the Good Friday (Peace)
Agreement of 1998. This is a definitive book about personal struggle
against traumatic memory, but also about how trauma bonding operates in
society. It is the author's belief that unresolved feelings of
psychological trauma are the wheelhouse of systemic evil, whether of the
dictator, the demagogue or the criminal psychopath. It is by
manipulating shared traumatic memories that tyrants control people, and
get them to do terrible things they would never otherwise do.
