Healing Developmental Trauma: How Early Trauma Affects Self-Regulation, Self-Image, and the Capacity for Relationship

Written for those working to heal developmental trauma and seeking new tools for self-awareness and growth, this book focuses on conflicts surrounding the capacity for connection. Explaining that an impaired capacity for connection to self and to others and the ensuing diminished aliveness are the hidden dimensions that underlie most psychological and many physiological problems, clinicians Laurence Heller and Aline LaPierre introduce the NeuroAffective Relational Model®(NARM), a unified approach to developmental, attachment, and shock trauma that, while not ignoring a person’s past, emphasizes working in the present moment. NARM is a somatically based psychotherapy that helps bring into awareness the parts of self that are disorganized and dysfunctional without making the regressed, dysfunctional elements the primary theme of the therapy. It emphasizes a person’s strengths, capacities, resources, and resiliency and is a powerful tool for working with both nervous system regulation and distortions of identity such as low self-esteem, shame, and chronic self-judgment.

• Nurturing Resilience: Helping Clients Move Forward from Developmental Trauma--An Integrative Somatic Approach
• In an Unspoken Voice: How the Body Releases Trauma and Restores Goodness
• The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
• Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving: A Guide and Map for Recovering from Childhood Trauma
• The 5 Personality Patterns: Your Guide to Understanding Yourself and Others and Developing Emotional Maturity
• The Polyvagal Theory in Therapy: Engaging the Rhythm of Regulation (Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology)
• Healing Trauma: A Pioneering Program for Restoring the Wisdom of Your Body
• Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma
• The Power of Attachment: How to Create Deep and Lasting Intimate Relationships
• Healing from Trauma: A Survivor's Guide to Understanding Your Symptoms and Reclaiming Your Life