Description
Illustrates a model of clinical practice drawing on research in cognitive and developmental psychology, attachment, trauma, and neuroscience
Suggests that a neuroscientific understanding of implicit and explicit memory is helpful in the understanding of trauma, personality development, and therapeutic action
Argues that an intersubjective psychodynamic model can use emotionally meaningful therapeutic relationships to facilitate relational and neurological change in trauma patients
Table of Contents
Memory and Freudian Psychoanalysis. The Two Main Memory Systems: A Neuroscience Perspective. Contemporary Perspectives on Psychological Trauma and Affect Regulation. Memory, Trauma, and Dissociation: The Re-emergence of Trauma-related Childhood Memories. Psychoanalysis and the Internal World: How Different Theories Understand the Concept of Mind. Attachment and Intersubjectivity: Developmental Perspectives on the Internal World. A Contemporary Relational Model: Integrating Attachment, Trauma, and Neuroscience Research. Intersubjectivity, Attachment, and Implicit Memory: The Development of Representational Models. Attachment, Trauma, and Intimate Violence. Brief, Time-limited Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: A Case of Intimate Violence from a Forensic Setting. The Role of Explicit and Implicit Memory in Therapeutic Action.
