Understanding Psychological Inheritance Through Geneatherapy Many of us have an ancestor who seemed remote in family stories, someone who never talked about their childhood, or a grandparent who parented in ways that seemed unusually strict or emotionally distant. This talk explores how childhood separations shaped not only individual lives but family patterns across generations. Drawing on the story of her father Harry, first admitted to a Sheffield orthopaedic hospital in 1937 at the age of two and a half, and spending much of his childhood inside, Helen introduces 'geneatherapy': an approach that reads family history through a psychological lens, combining archival research with insights from attachment research and the study of adverse childhood experiences. Audiences leave with a quick-start handout on accessing older British medical and hospital records, and a fresh framework for understanding the ancestors those records describe. A fuller free online guide, with template letters for writing to archives, is available on Helen's website. For in-person events, signed copies of Helen's books, 'Yet' and 'A Victorian's Inheritance', are available on request. Suitable for family history societies, U3As, WIs, Rotary, Probus, and Lions groups. Approximately 45 minutes plus 15 minutes for questions.