Although the quality of the attachment relationship is often cited as an important determinant
of development, the extent of impact of this environmental influence in shaping behavioral …

Stress is a part of every life to varying degrees, but individuals differ in their stress
vulnerability. Stress is usefully viewed from a biological perspective; accordingly, it involves …

Somewhere in Africa, more than a million years ago, a line of apes began to rear their young
differently than their Great Ape ancestors. From this new form of care came new ways of …

This volume (one of two) is the first presentation of Schore's comprehensive theory in book
form, as it has developed since 1994. In 1994 Allan Schore published his groundbreaking …

A primary interest of the field of infant mental health is in the early conditions that place
infants at risk for less than optimal development. The fundamental problem of what …

Children who spend early portions of their lives in institutions or those maltreated in their
families of origin are at risk for developing emotional and behavioral problems reflecting …

Objective: This review integrates recent advances in attachment theory, affective
neuroscience, developmental stress research, and infant psychiatry in order to delineate the …

Notes that mental, physical, or sexual abuse in close personal relationships commonly
results in trauma that is very different from the trauma of accidents, illness, or war. This book …

2 “An 8-month-old infant clambers on… a fallen tree while its mother sits about 7 feet below.
The infant slips and hangs by two hands.[His mother] looks up, stands on two legs, and …

In 1997, Putnam [1] pointed out that relatively little was known about the etiology and
development of dissociation other than the presumed etiologic role of trauma; however, the …