Mentalizing in the Development and Treatment of Attachment Trauma

362 Pages·2012·0.814 MB·English

by  Jon G. Allen

MENTALIZING IN THE DEVELOPMENT
AND TREATMENT OF ATTACHMENT
TRAUMA
Developments in Psychoanalysis Series
Series Editors: Peter Fonagy, Mary Target, and Liz Allison
Other titles in the series:
Developmental Science and Psychoanalysis: Integration and Innovation
Edited by Linda Mayes, Peter Fonagy and Mary Target
Mentalizing in Child Therapy: Guidelines for Clinical Practitioners
Edited by Annelies J. E. Verheugt-Pleiter, Jolien Zevalkink
and Marcel G. J. Schmeets
Taboo or not Taboo? Forbidden Thoughts, Forbidden Acts in Psychoanalysis
and Psychotherapy
Edited by Brent Willock, Rebecca C. Curtis and Lori C. Bohm
Destructiveness, Intersubjectivity, and Trauma: The Identity Crisis of Modern
Psychoanalysis
Werner Bohleber
Early Development and its Disturbances: Clinical, Conceptual, and Empirical
Research on ADHD and other Psychopathologies and its Epistemological Reflections
Edited by Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber, Jorge Canestri and Mary Target
MENTALIZING IN
THE DEVELOPMENT
AND TREATMENT OF
ATTACHMENT TRAUMA
Jon G. Allen
First published in 2013 by
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Copyright © 2013 by Jon G. Allen
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To Esther and Dick, in Memory

CONTENTS
ABOUT THE AUTHOR ix
DEVELOPMENTS IN PSYCHOANALYSIS:
SERIES FOREWORD xi
Peter Fonagy, Mary Target and Liz Allison
PREFACE xv
INTRODUCTION xix
CHAPTER ONE
Attachment in childhood 1
CHAPTER TWO
Attachment in adulthood 59
CHAPTER THREE
Holding mind in mind 111
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viii CONTENTS
CHAPTER FOUR
Attachment trauma 163
CHAPTER FIVE
Neurobiological connections 213
CHAPTER SIX
Treatment 253
REFERENCES 289
INDEX 327
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Jon G. Allen is a Senior Staff Psychologist and holds the Helen Malsin
Palley Chair in Mental Health Research at The Menninger Clinic. He is
Professor of Psychiatry in the Menninger Department of Psychiatry and
Behavioral Sciences at the Baylor College of Medicine and an adjunct
faculty member of the Houston-Galveston Psychoanalytic Institute and
the Institute for Spirituality and Health in the Texas Medical Center.
Dr. Allen received his B.A. degree in psychology at the University of
Connecticut and his Ph.D. degree in clinical psychology at the University
of Rochester. He completed postdoctoral training in clinical psychol-
ogy at The Menninger Clinic. He conducts psychotherapy, diagnostic
consultations, psychoeducational programs, and research, specializing
in trauma-related disorders and treatment outcomes. He has taught
extensively at the undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral levels.
He is past editor of the Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic, associate editor
of the Journal of Trauma and Dissociation, and a member of the edito-
rial boards of Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy
and Psychiatry: Interpersonal and Biological Processes. His books include
Coping with Trauma: Hope through Understanding, Coping with Depression:
From Catch-22 to Hope, and coauthored with Peter Fonagy and Anthony
Bateman, Mentalizing in Clinical Practice, all published by American
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