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This work is a collection of essays by some of the notable contributors in the field of attachment theory and developmental neuropsychology, as well as by a number of clinicians working from this perspective in various therapeutic approaches. Daniel Siegelapos;s opening chapter, ‘An interpersonal neurobiology of psychotherapy: the developing mind and the resolution of trauma’, is an excellent review of his earlier work, The Developing Mind. As such it may be very useful for any clinician wishing to find a relatively brief, concise and cogent review of findings and theory about the developing mind and interpersonal neurobiology of attachment and relational trauma. Siegel is particularly adept at synthesizing and making readable the extensive work of various leading writers in the field of the emergent mind. The second chapter, ‘Unresolved states regarding loss or abuse can have “second generation” effects: disorganization, role inversion, and frightening ideation in the offspring of traumatized, non-maltreating parents’, is an attempt to summarize the details of attachment theory and demonstrate the use of attachment interviews and classification in trauma. The difficulty of this chapter is witnessed by the need for four authors and over seven pages of references to accomplish what is still an extensive presentation. It is not one that can yet render the various attachment interview techniques a routine clinical tool. It does, however, give a background for a reasonable understanding of attachment and its clinical relevance in analysis and therapy.
The third chapter, ‘Early relational trauma, disorganized attachment, and the development of a predisposition to violence’, written by Alan Schore is a concise distillation of many of the principles from his trilogy of books on affect-(dys)regulation and the self. Here, he additionally presents an interesting consideration of the development of the violent personality as a response to trauma and inability to modulate affe