COVER; CONTENTS; ABOUT THE AUTHOR; DEVELOPMENTS IN PSYCHOANALYSIS: SERIES FOREWORD; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE Attachment in childhood; CHAPTER TWO Attachment in adulthood; CHAPTER THREE Holding mind in mind; CHAPTER FOUR Attachment trauma; CHAPTER FIVE Neurobiological connections; CHAPTER SIX Treatment; REFERENCES; INDEX
Summary
This book brings together the latest knowledge from attachment research and neuroscience to provide a new approach to treating trauma for therapists from different professional disciplines and diverse theoretical backgrounds. The field of trauma suffers from fragmentation as brands of therapy proliferate in relation to a multiplicity of psychiatric disorders. This fragmentation calls for a fresh clinical approach to treating trauma. Pinpointing at once the problem and potential solution, the author places the experience of being psychologically alone in unbearable emotional states at the heart