This book brings together the latest knowledge from attachment research and neuroscience
to provide a new approach to treating trauma for therapists from different professional …

In Restoring Mentalizing in Attachment Relationships: Treating Trauma With Plain Old
Therapy, Jon G. Allen, Ph. D., argues that the incorporation of mentalizing into attachment …

The self and attachment difficulties associated with chronic childhood abuse and other forms
of pervasive trauma must be understood and addressed in the context of the therapeutic …

Winner, 2011 Written Media Award, International Society for Study of Trauma & Dissociation.
How to effectively engage traumatized clients, who avoid attachment, closeness, and painful …

Mentalizing, the fundamental human capacity to understand behavior in relation to mental
states such as thoughts and feelings, is the basis of healthy relationships and self …

Combining years of research, teaching, and experience treating trauma survivors, Dr. Jon G.
Allen offers compassionate and practical guidance to understanding trauma and its effects …

Highlights•Many psychotherapy patients have insecure and particularly disorganized
attachments.•The patient therapist relationship has many features of an attachment …

Attachment theory is on the leading edge of a conceptual revolution. It offers a new
paradigm that can synthesize into a more coherent whole the best ideas from …

Organized around extended case illustrations, this highly regarded work shows how an
attachment perspective can inform psychotherapeutic practice with patients of all ages. Karl …

Intrafamilial trauma is known to be associated with mental health-related challenges that
place the individual at risk for the development of psychopathology. Yet, those trauma …