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ABSTRACT Family, Domestic and Sexual Violence (FDSV) is a serious problem that is hidden in plain sight among all communities around the world. Psychoanalysts and psychotherapists have listened collectively to millions of stories from our patients about their experiences of FDSV and how it has harmed them deeply and enduringly. Joye Weisel-Barth’s paper, Shame and Punishment: The Case of Angie provides an excellent account of the added complexity of the recovery process from FDSV when traumatic experiences are endured concomitantly with historical, transgenerational trauma resulting from racist violence. This article considers the problem of FDSV in Australia’s First Nations communities who have been the targets of extreme racist violence for over two hundred years. The ways that contemporary psychoanalysts and psychotherapists can join other professionals in providing a holistic, culturally safe, and trauma-informed system of responses to FDSV survivors are then explored.