Edited by Daniel J. Siegel and Marion F. Solomon, this volume gathers researchers, clinicians, and theorists working at the meeting point of neurobiology, developmental psychology, traumatology, and systems theory. First published in 2003 within Norton's Interpersonal Neurobiology series, it grew out of a convergence of ideas among clinicians and researchers shaping how the field understands relational injury and repair.
The contributors argue that early relationships shape the developing nervous system, that unresolved traumatic experience settles into patterns of rigidity or disorganisation, and that these patterns remain open to change through later relationships, including the therapeutic one. Chapters move between research on memory, affect regulation, and the body and the clinical encounter itself.
For the practitioner, the collection connects mechanism to method: it reads bodily and emotional states as clinical information, frames integration as the aim of treatment, and positions the therapeutic relationship as the setting where change becomes possible.
About the authors
Daniel Siegel
Daniel J. Siegel is an American physician and clinical professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine. Trained in pediatrics and in child, adolescent, and adult psychiatry, he founded the approach he calls interpersonal neurobiology and serves as director of education at the Mindsight Institute. He is founding editor of the Norton Professional Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology and the author of many books, among them The Developing Mind, Mindsight, Brainstorm, and Aware. He was a founding co-director of UCLA's Mindful Awareness Research Center.
Marion Solomon
Marion F. Solomon is an American psychotherapist whose work centers on couples therapy, attachment, and the treatment of trauma. She co-founded the Lifespan Learning Institute in Los Angeles and served as senior faculty in UCLA's Extension Division and as a professor at the American Behavioral Studies Institute. She wrote or co-authored several books, among them Narcissism and Intimacy, Lean on Me, and Short Term Therapy for Long Term Change, and co-edited Healing Trauma with Daniel J. Siegel.
Details
- 2003
- W. W. Norton
- W. W. Norton
- 384
- 9780393703962