Bruno Clavier
Bruno Clavier, psychoanalyst and clinical psychologist, is the leading exponent of transgenerational psychoanalysis today. He is the author of “Fantômes familiaux” (Family Ghosts), which became an instant reference, and “Ces enfants qui veulent guérir leurs parents” (Children Who Want to Cure Their Parents). He has published two books on the subject of incest: “L’inceste ne fait pas de bruit, des violences sexuelles et des moyens en guérir” (2021), co-written with Inès Gauthier, and “Ils ne savaient pas… Pourquoi la psy a négligé les violences sexuelles” (2022), published by Payot.
Conference: Silence and Secrecy
Saturday, March 2026, at 4:30 p.m.
Family ghosts stem from traumas that our ancestors were unable to cope with emotionally in their own time. In these ancestral scenes, family secrets and things left unsaid unfortunately abound. But more than that, the intensity of the traumas experienced has created individual defense systems which, little by little, become more or less conscious family strategies, whose function is to create the illusion that the trauma never happened. Beyond secrecy and silence, the unthinkable and inconceivable are at work. Psychogenealogy can help to bring light and healing where darkness and the repetition of trauma have previously reigned.
