Abstract

The negative effects brought by intergenerational trauma affecting Latinx women that transmits across generations has not received the appropriate attention that recognizes the cumulative emotional and psychological wounding brought by the experience of migration associated with the legacies of colonialism, political violence, and related stressors. Intergenerational trauma can be recognized and ameliorated with the application of postcolonial psychotherapy modalities that endorse the relevance of cultural representation, identity, and location, with specific reference to migration, gender, race, and ethnicity that focus on promoting liberation and healing. This article will address the interconnections (The Connectivity Bridge) between gender specific cultural values and/or national narratives that perpetuate the colonial thinking of superiority vs inferiority, based on gender and/or ethnicity, and the creation of negative self-identifications evidenced by many Latinx women. A clinical application will briefly illustrate the existing relationship between postcolonialism, ancestry, feminism, and the migration experience that can affect Latinx women living in the United States. Four cultural expectations of gender specific behaviors with ties to colonialism endorsed by Latinxs will be discussed, namely machismo, marianismo, attitudinal familismo or the feeling of support one expects from family, and simpatia, a cultural relational script that also carries gender specific behavioral expectations. An application of a liberation/decolonization healing approach will also illustrate and challenge the assumptions that gender specific expectations of behavior are antiquated and no longer relevant to modern Latinx women with a history of migration, born or residing in the United States who continue being affected by a continuation of the traumatic effects of the previously suffered oppression in the country of origin for many Latinx women and their descendants.

摘要

影响拉丁裔女性的代际创伤带来的负面影响在几代人之间传播，并没有得到适当的关注，他们没有认识到与殖民主义、政治暴力和相关压力源相关的移民经历所带来的累积情感和心理创伤。代际创伤可以通过应用后殖民心理治疗方式来识别和改善，这些方式认可文化表征、身份和位置的相关性，特别是关注促进解放和康复的移民、性别、种族和民族。本文将探讨基于性别和/或种族的特定性别文化价值观和/或民族叙事之间的相互联系（连通性桥梁），这些文化价值观和/或民族叙事使殖民主义的优越与自卑思想永存，以及许多人所证明的负面自我认同的产生拉丁裔女性。临床应用将简要说明后殖民主义、血统、女权主义和可能影响生活在美国的拉丁裔女性的移民经历之间的现有关系。将讨论拉丁人认可的与殖民主义有关的性别特定行为的四种文化期望，即大男子主义、玛丽安主义、态度 临床应用将简要说明后殖民主义、血统、女权主义和可能影响生活在美国的拉丁裔女性的移民经历之间的现有关系。将讨论拉丁人认可的与殖民主义有关的性别特定行为的四种文化期望，即大男子主义、玛丽安主义、态度 临床应用将简要说明后殖民主义、血统、女权主义和可能影响生活在美国的拉丁裔女性的移民经历之间的现有关系。将讨论拉丁人认可的与殖民主义有关的性别特定行为的四种文化期望，即大男子主义、玛丽安主义、态度familismo或人们期望从家庭获得的支持感，以及simpatia，一种文化关系脚本，也带有针对特定性别的行为期望。解放/非殖民化治疗方法的应用也将说明和挑战这样一种假设，即性别特定的行为期望已经过时，不再与有移民历史、在美国出生或居住在美国继续受到影响的现代拉丁裔女性相关。许多拉丁裔妇女及其后代在原籍国遭受压迫的创伤性影响的延续。