Healing Trauma: Attachment, Mind, Body and Brain (Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology)

“Trauma has returned to center stage in our clinical and theoretical thinking. This book enriches our understanding of trauma from all of the pertinent perspectives. It is going to be invaluable for all in the field, both for treating people and thinking about trauma. ”
– Daniel S. Stern, MD, Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry, Cornell Medical School; writer of The Interpersonal World of the Infant

“This remarkable collection of articles summarizes much of the best current thinking on trauma, attachment research, neurobiology, and its application to psychodynamic psychotherapy. It is an outstanding achievement.”
– Beatrice Beebe, PhD, Clinical Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry, NYS Psychiatric Institute, Columbia University

“This volume provides much more than a compelling set of models for healing trauma―it also delivers a cutting-edge account of the causes and consequences of trauma. The editors, Marion Solomon and Daniel Siegel, are to be congratulated for bringing together so cohesively one of the most powerful voices in the field. This book will clarify understanding of trauma through eight chapters presenting the latest significant findings in neuroscience, developmental and clinical psychology, and psychiatry. Those training or working with sufferers of trauma and their families will find this resource indispensable.”
– Howard Steele, PhD, Director, Attachment Research Unit, University College, London; Editor, Attachment & Human Development

“This is an ordinary book. It provides an up to the moment integration of attachment trauma and neuroscience. Each contribution provides an essential chart to guide the therapist in understanding this most difficult group of clients. Taken together, the chapters compose a veritable atlas mapping this world of the unbearable and unthinkable. Without such theoretical and practical guides, the therapist working with trauma can change into as vulnerable as the client she or he attempts to heal.”
– Peter Fonagy, PhD, FBA, Freud Memorial Professor of Psychoanalysis at University College London and Director, Child and Family Center, The Menninger Clinic, Topeka, KS

Daniel J. Siegel, MD is a graduate of Harvard Medical School and completed his postgraduate medical education at UCLA with training in pediatrics and child, adolescent, and adult psychiatry. He is currently a clinical professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine, founding co-director of UCLA’s Mindful Awareness Research Center, founding co-investigator at the UCLA Center for Culture, Brain and Development, and executive director of the Mindsight Institute, an educational center devoted to promoting insight, compassion, and empathy in individuals, families, institutions, and communities. Dr. Siegel’s psychotherapy practice spans thirty years, and he has published extensively for the professional audience. He serves as the Founding Editor for theNorton Professional Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology which includes over three dozen textbooks. Dr. Siegel’s books include Mindsight, Pocket Guide to Interpersonal Neurobiology, The Developing Mind, Second Edition, The Mindful Therapist, The Mindful Brain, Parenting from the Inside Out (with Mary Hartzell, M.Ed.), and the three New York Times bestsellers: Brainstorm, The Whole-Brain Child (with Tina Payne Bryson, Ph.D.), and his latest No-Drama Discipline (with Tina Payne Bryson, Ph.D.). He has been invited to lecture for the King of Thailand, Pope John Paul II, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Google University, and TEDx. For more information about his educational programs and resources, please visit: www.DrDanSiegel.com.

Marion Solomon, Ph.D., is a lecturer at the David Geffen School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry at UCLA, and Senior Extension faculty at the Department of Humanities, Sciences and Social Sciences at UCLA. She is also director of clinical training at the Lifespan Learning Institute and writer of Narcissism and Intimacy, co-writer of Short Term Therapy For Long Term Change, and co-editor of Countertransference in Couples Therapy and Healing Trauma.