Product Description

How attachment relationships create a coherent self, and what happens when these relationships break down. Leading researchers discuss cutting-edge ideas about the nature of trauma and its treatment. Contributors include Allan Schore, Bessel van der Kolk, Mary Main, Robert Neborsky, Francine Shapiro, and Diana Fosha.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #125593 in Books
• Published on: 2003-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 350 pages

Review
[P]rovides fresh information and stimulating perspectives. It's an intellectual work-out that set me thinking. -- Will Handy, MSSW, Milton H. Erickson Foundation Newsletter

[R]enewed my enthusiasm for short term dynamically oriented psychotherapy…[A] worthy addition to my personal library and yours. -- Hilary Le Page, MBBS, Canadian Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Review

About the Author
Marion Solomon and Daniel J. Siegel live in Los Angeles, California.

Customer Reviews

Healing Trauma
An excellent book for all who work with trauma patients. You will find it an excellent resource for your library.

Brainy and well worth it
This is a scholarly collection of essays from leading theorists in the field of attachment and neurobiology. It provides an exciting, in-depth overview from various perspectives from the inner workings of the brain, to the development of the social mind, to what it all mean for clinicians. There is both theory and practical advice. The last several chapters are particularly relevant to psychotherapists in the field working with individuals with trauma. The down side of the book is that some of the early chapters are somewhat rhedundant and heady, necessarily so in the science presented, but definately overlapping. However, I'd strongly recommend it for all clinicians wanting to stay abreast of the exciting developments in this area. I use it in supervision groups I lead for therapists, for example.
It is also a strong follow up to Seigel's The Developing Mind.

Traumas as Social Interactions
We react to serious mishaps, life altering setbacks, disasters, abuse, and death by going through the phases of grieving. Traumas are the complex outcomes of psychodynamic and biochemical processes. But the particulars of traumas depend heavily on the interaction between the victim and his social milieu.

It would seem that while the victim progresses from denial to helplessness, rage, depression and thence to acceptance of the traumatizing events - society demonstrates a diametrically opposed progression. This incompatibility, this mismatch of psychological phases is what leads to the formation and crystallization of trauma.

This book is a collection of important and incisive insights, by a variety of authors, from different schools of psychology, into the interaction between traumatic processes and attachment modalities and disorders. Indispensable. Sam Vaknin, author of "Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited".