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Author Allen, Jon G

Title Mentalizing in the development and treatment of attachment trauma / Jon G. Allen
Published London : Karnac Books, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (xxiii, 337 pages)
Series DEVS
Developments in psychoanalysis series.
Contents 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Psychic trauma.
Attachment behavior.
Object Attachment
PSYCHOLOGY -- Psychopathology -- Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Attachment behavior
Psychic trauma
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781782410362
1782410368
1283739623
9781283739627