Main description:

Very little coverage in the psychoanalytic literature of the effects of cumulative smaller developmental traumas * Trauma generally is a very hot topic across mental health now * Covers key theory and clinical practice, and applicable to work with a wide range of patients

Contents:

Part 1: Emerging from the Fog: Navigating the Wilderness of Developmental Trauma, 1. Our Pain Knows No Time, 2. Our Pain is the Crack in the Shell that Encloses our Understanding (following Gibran), 3. Retreat from the Body: Birth and Beyond, 4. No Safe Harbour: Children of Perdition, 5. Sometimes it Takes a Village: Treating Developmental Trauma in Combined Therapy, Part 2: Group Therapy with Developmental Stress and Trauma, 6. Failling Forever: The Price of Chronic Shock, 7. The Abject Self: Self States of Relentless Despair