Noémi Orvos-Tóth
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Noémi Orvos-Tóth (born 1971) is a Hungarian clinical psychologist. She is the founder of the Institute of Transgenerational Trauma, and the author of Inherited Fate, a book about collective historical trauma and transgenerational trauma.
Orvos-Toth was born in Hungary in 1971, and moved to Germany with her family in 1987, spending a year in a refugee camp. She returned to Hungary in 1990.[1]
Orvos-Toth graduated in psychology at Eötvös Lóránd University in Budapest and then in clinical psychology at the University of Debrecen.[1] She has worked as a clinical psychologist in hospital settings and in private practice.[1] Orvos-Toth is a proponent of the idea of transgenerational trauma, which theorises that trauma experienced by some members of a group can be passed down to later generations. In 2023 she founded the Institute for Transgenerational Trauma.[1]
Besides her clinical psychology work, Orvos-Toth is also an author. She contributed to a 2017 book about relationships between parents and children, and wrote a popular 2018 book about recovery from emotionally abusive relationships.[2][3] In 2024, Orvos-Toth appeared on Hrvatska Radiotelevizija in Croatia where she gave an interview and a new book Inherited Fate. The appearance was part of a longer promotion in the country which saw her cover the topic of transgenerational trauma. During the interview, she explained her personal fear of losing her daughter when she was a newborn; Orvos-Toth was then able to trace this fear back to her ancestors who had also lost children.[4] The book Inherited Fate became a best-seller in Hungary, selling 300,000 copies by early 2024.[4] In 2024 it was announced that Cornerstone Press had won an auction for the rights to Inherited Fate, and would publish it in more than 20 languages from 2025.[5] Orvos-Toth is also the co-host of podcast ‘We Need to Talk!’.[1]
In 2023 Orvos-Toth was presented with the Libri Public Favourite Award at the Libri Literary Awards, for the best-selling book of the past sixteen years.[6]
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 "Noemi Orvos-Toth". www.penguin.co.uk. Retrieved 2025-04-04.
- ↑ Töhötöm, Tóth Szabolcs (2019-10-15). "Orvos-Tóth Noémi – Örökölt sorsunk, eltitkolt történeteink és a magunkba zárt huszadik század". Az élet meg minden (in Hungarian). Retrieved 2025-04-04.
- ↑ "Erika Náray and special guest: Noémi Orvos-Tóth". Müpa. Retrieved 2025-04-04.
- 1 2 "U fokusu: Naslijeđena sudbina - Kako se izliječiti od obiteljskih rana?" [In Focus: Inherited Destiny - How to Heal from Family Wounds?]. YouTube. 30 March 2024. Retrieved 4 April 2024.
- ↑ "Cornerstone wins eight-way auction for Noemi Orvos-Tóth's book on intergenerational trauma". The Bookseller. Retrieved 2025-04-04.
- ↑ Papageno (2024-06-15). "Karikó Katalin, Náray Tamás és Orvos-Tóth Noémi is Libri-díjat kapott". Papageno (in Hungarian). Retrieved 2025-04-04.
External links
- Interview with Orvos-Toth, "Doctor-Noémi Tóth: Generations fit together like gems on the pearls", Konyves Magazin, 8 June 2019
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