Mentalizing in the Development and Treatment of Attachment Trauma
Jon G Allen
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Description for Mentalizing in the Development and Treatment of Attachment Trauma
Paperback. 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. Series: The Developments in Psychoanalysis Series. Num Pages: 362 pages. BIC Classification: MMJT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 181 x 228 x 19. Weight in Grams: 508.
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 of trauma in attachment relationships. This trauma results from a failure of mentalizing, that is, empathic ... Read more
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 of trauma in attachment relationships. This trauma results from a failure of mentalizing, that is, empathic ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
384
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Series
The Developments in Psychoanalysis Series
Condition
New
Number of Pages
362
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781780490915
SKU
V9781780490915
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About Jon G Allen
Jon G. Allen, Ph.D., is the Helen Malsin Palley Chair in Mental Health Research; Professor of Psychiatry in the Menninger Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Baylor College of Medicine; and Senior Staff Psychologist in The Menninger Clinic, Houston, Texas.
Reviews for Mentalizing in the Development and Treatment of Attachment Trauma
'Jon Allen's latest book of trauma and attachment is his best yet. With a prose style of admirable clarity, he takes the reader on a journey through the history of attachment theory and its applicability to the treatment of those patients who have been traumatized. He writes with authority but never condescends to the reader. Clinicians who are challenged by ... Read more