Healing Trauma: Attachment, Mind, Body and Brain

Edited by Marion F. Solomon and Daniel J. Siegel, M.D.

Overview — Contents - Contributors

Born out of the excitement of a convergence of ideas and passions, this book provides a synthesis of the work of researchers, clinicians, and theoreticians who are leaders in the field of trauma, attachment, and psychotherapy. As we move into the third millennium, the field of mental health is in an exciting position to bring together diverse ideas from a range of disciplines that illuminate our understanding of human experience: neurobiology, developmental psychology, traumatology, and systems theory. The contributors emphasize the ways in which the social environment, including relationships of childhood, adulthood, and the treatment milieu change aspects of the structure of the brain and ultimately alter the mind.

Praise for Healing Trauma

"It is a book which constantly made me want to hunt out the source references, raised many questions, updated my knowledge in the area of attachment and trauma theory and renewed my enthusiasm for short term dynamically oriented psychotherapy… [A] worthy addition to my personal library and yours."

—Canadian Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Review

"[P]rovides fresh information and stimulating perspectives. It's an intellectual work-out that set me thinking."

—Milton H. Erickson Foundation Newsletter

"[T]he ultimate textbook on trauma..Invaluable for clinicians who wish to familiarize themselves with trauma treatments."

—Journal of Analytical Psychology

"An excellent work, bringing current findings from neurobiology and attachment theory together with clinical theory and practice in the field of early trauma and the development of the human brain and mind. . . . Solomon and Siegel have collected articles from many eminent authorities in the fields of attachment and trauma for this book. Each has come up trumps with a quality contribution. . . . I recommend the book to all psychiatrists and psychotherapists. It integrates the latest findings from neurobiology, the developmental sciences and pscyotherapy, in ways likely to enhance the work and understanding of all psychiatrists and psychotherapists."

—Australia & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry

'This remarkable collection of articles summarizes much of the best current thinking on trauma, attachment research, neurobiology, and its application to psychodynamic psychotherapy. It is an outstanding achievement.'
—Beatrice Beebe, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry, NYS Psychiatric Institute, Columbia University

'This is an extraordinary book. It provides an up-to-the-minute integration of attachment-trauma and neuroscience. Each contribution provides an essential chart to guide the therapist in understanding this most difficult group of clients. Taken together, they compose a veritable atlas mapping this world of the unbearable and unthinkable. Without such theoretical and practical guides, the therapist working with trauma can become as vulnerable as the client she or he attempts to heal.'
—Peter Fonagy, Ph.D., F.B.A., Freud Memorial Professor of Psychoanalysis at University College London and Director, Child and Family Center, The Menninger Clinic, Kansas

ISBN: 0-393-70396-7
January 2003
Hardcover, 224 pages