Relational Foundations: A Relational-Neurodevelopmental Approach to Cumulative Trauma in Clinical Practice
Book Details
- Publisher : Routledge
- Published : 2026
- Cover : Paperback
- Pages : 266
- Category :
Psychoanalysis - Catalogue No : 98659
- ISBN 13 : 9781041334781
- ISBN 10 : 1041334788
Table of Contents
PART I: ORIGINS – ATTACHMENT, DEVELOPMENT, AND THE INNER WORLD
1. Towards an Integrative Psychoanalysis of the Internal World
2. Attachment, Security, Separation, and Psychological Differentiation: Developmental Implications
3. The Procedural Past: Infant Observation and the Relational Foundations of Adult Psychotherapy
PART II: CUMULATIVE TRAUMA, MEMORY, AND INTERGENERATIONAL TRANSMISSION
4. Stop Thief! But What Has Been Stolen and by Whom
5. The Concept of Cumulative Relational Trauma and the Processes of Intergenerational Transmission
6. Memory, Trauma, and Representation in Psychotherapy
7. Re-Reading Klein: The Formation of Internal Worlds Under Conditions of Cumulative Relational Trauma
8. Power, Security, and Recognition: Attachment, Authority, and Relational Trauma
PART III: RELATIONAL PROCESS AND THE CLINICAL ENCOUNTER
9. The Therapeutic Relationship and the Process of Change: An Integrationist Perspective
10. A Relational Perspective on Enactments, Boundary Violations, and Self - Disclosure
11. Moments of Meeting: The Relational Challenges of Sexuality in the Consulting Room
12. Relational Perspectives on Psychosis and Anxiety
13. Working With the Patient’s Everyday Relational World: Procedural Templates, Enactment, and the Site of Change
PART IV: INTEGRATION AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS
14. A Contemporary Relational Model: Integrating Attachment, Trauma, and Neuroscience Research
15. Cumulative Relational Trauma Revisited
16. Integrative Reflections on Relational Neuroscience
17. Conclusion – Towards a Relational-Neurodevelopmental Clinical Practice

