Adams K. Attuned Treatment of Developmental Trauma: Non-abused, High-functioning People Living Outside of Time

Routledge, 2023. — 325 p. — (Psychoanalysis in a New Key Book Series). — ISBN 9781032201306.This book takes a painstaking look at developmental trauma as it manifests in group, individual, and combined psychotherapies, tracking the growth of non-abused individuals who have courageously addressed overwhelming childhood experiences to make sense of the chaos in their lives.The cumulative impact of repetitive stress, fear, and shame in childhood wreaks havoc on the developing brain, resulting in a life-long vulnerability to anxiety, despair, and dissociative moments that are often described as developmental trauma. Adverse childhood experiences are often overlooked by therapists. This book focuses specifically on the profound suffering of high-functioning private-practice patients who manifest developmental trauma from chronic shock, shame, and neglect. Adams offers a synthesis of diverse theoretical worlds in her study of adaptations to cumulative trauma, namely, relational psychoanalysis, the British school of object relations, trauma theory, neuroscience and interpersonal neurobiology, developmental psychopathology, and attachment theory.Using richly detailed clinical material, this book provides invaluably clear examples to illustrate the effects of disorganized states in infancy, making it essential reading for psychoanalysts, psychotherapists and clinical psychologists working with traumatized patients.Emerging from the Fog: Navigating the Wilderness of Developmental Trauma
Our Pain Knows No Time
Our Pain is the Crack in the Shell that Encloses our Understanding
Retreat from the Body: Birth and Beyond
No Safe Harbour: Children of Perdition
Sometimes it Takes a Village: Treating Developmental Trauma in Combined Therapy
Group Therapy with Developmental Stress and Trauma
Failling Forever: The Price of Chronic Shock
The Abject Self: Self States of Relentless Despair