Cross-Generational Trauma and Personality: How Overwhelming Experiences, Genetics, and Epigenetics Shape Who We Are and Who We Can Become
- Speaker:
- Daniel J. Siegel, MD
- Duration:
- 1 Hour 04 Minutes
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Copyright:
-
Jun 28, 2025
- Product Code:
- POS150289
- Media Type:
- Digital Seminar
Description
This presentation will explore the Patterns of Developmental Pathways (PDP) framework of personality and how traumatic attachment experiences may interact with innate temperament – influenced by both genetic and epigenetic factors – shape the enduring patterns of emotion and its regulation, thinking and meaning-making, and behavioral habits that we call “personality.” Understanding the role of subcortical influences on motivation and affect can greatly help in gaining insights into how overwhelming experiences early in life may impact the cortical learning that contributes to our adaptive strategies of survival. Practical applications of this PDP approach to working clinically with those who’ve experienced various challenges to secure attachment including developmental trauma will be explored. Cultural influences on how each of these patterns of personality express themselves in life will be discussed.
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Handouts/Brochure
| File type | File name | Number of pages | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Manual - Cross-Generational Trauma (1.4 MB) | 20 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Transcript - Cross-Generational Trauma and Personality: How Overwhelming Experiences, Genetics, and Epigenetics Shape Who We Are and Who We Can Become (163.3 KB) | 12 Pages | Available after Purchase |
Speaker
Daniel J. Siegel, MD Related seminars and products
Mindsight Institute
Dr. Dan Siegel is the founder and director of education of the Mindsight Institute and founding co-director of the Mindful Awareness Research Center at UCLA, where he was also co-principal investigator of the Center for Culture, Brain and Development and clinical professor of psychiatry at The School of Medicine.
An award-winning educator, Dan is the author of five New York Times bestsellers and over fifteen other books which have been translated into over forty languages. As the founding editor of the Norton Professional Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology (“IPNB”), Dan has overseen the publication of over one hundred books in the transdisciplinary IPNB frame which focuses on the mind and mental health.
A graduate of Harvard Medical School, Dan completed his postgraduate training at UCLA specializing in pediatrics, and adult, adolescent, and child psychiatry. He was trained in attachment research and narrative analysis through a National Institute of Mental Health research training fellowship focusing on how relationships shape our autobiographical ways of making sense of our lives and influence our development across the lifespan. Financial: Dr. Dan Siegel serves as the Medical Director at the Lifespan Learning Institute and is the Co-Founder and Director of Education at the Mindsight Institute. He is also the founding editor of the Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology. Dr. Siegel receives royalties as a published author and serves as a scientific advisor for the Inner Development Goals initiative and as an advisor for the Center for Child Well-Being. Additionally, he receives honoraria and recording royalties from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. Dr. Siegel has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Speaker Disclosures
Financial: Dr. Dan Siegel serves as the Medical Director at the Lifespan Learning Institute and is the Co-Founder and Director of Education at the Mindsight Institute. He is also the founding editor of the Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology. Dr. Siegel receives royalties as a published author and serves as a scientific advisor for the Inner Development Goals initiative and as an advisor for the Center for Child Well-Being. Additionally, he receives honoraria and recording royalties from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. Dr. Siegel has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Dan Siegel is an honorary member of the Austrian Federal Association for Mindfulness. He also serves on the Board of the Garrison Institute and as an advisory board member for both Gloo and Convergence.
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Objectives
- Catalogue three sub-cortical motivational networks underlying patterns of developmental pathways.
- Determine three forms of “attendancy” that shape the direction of attention.
- Determine how traumatic attachment influences the intensity of temperament.
- Catalogue nine patterns of developmental pathways.
- Identify the relationship between attachment and temperament in the formation of personality.
Outline
- Attachment vs Temperament in forming personality
- Three sub-cortical networks that underly development
- Three forms of “attendancy” that shape our attention
- Traumatic attachment in the development of personality
- Nine patterns of development pathways
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