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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 Karnac Books Ltd 118 Finchley Road London NW3 5HT Copyright © 2013 by Jon G. Allen The right of Jon G. Allen to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted in accordance with §§ 77 and 78 of the Copyright Design and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A C.I.P. for this book is available from the British Library ISBN-13: 978-1-78049-091-5 Typeset by V Publishing Solutions (P) Ltd., Chennai, India Printed in Great Britain www.karnacbooks.com 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 vii 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 ix
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