Dr. Lieberman sought to explore ways in which both parents and children could talk openly and honestly about trauma. She also rightly recognized that parents’ own rough childhoods and the scars that they still carried might affect the way they responded to their child in stressful or traumatic circumstances, hindering their ability to act as a protective buffer. She learned from her mentor Selma Fraiberg that families can learn how to “speak the unspeakable” and that parents can discover tools to support and buffer their children, even in moments of crisis. Eventually, Dr. Lieberman would go
...more
