Healing the Fractured Mind: A Revolutionary Method for Treating Addiction and Other Disorders

Author(s) : Felicity de Zulueta, Author(s) : Leonor de Escoriaza, Author(s) : Jayshree Unadkat, Author(s) : Monique Notice

Healing the Fractured Mind: A Revolutionary Method for Treating Addiction and Other Disorders

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  • Publisher : Karnac Books
  • Published : September 2024
  • Cover : Paperback
  • Pages : 320
  • Category :
    Forthcoming
  • Category 2 :
    Psychoanalysis
  • Catalogue No : 97598
  • ISBN 13 : 9781913494711
  • ISBN 10 : 1913494713

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Healing the Fractured Mind: A Revolutionary Method for Treating Addiction and Other Disorders offers the reader a journey into the human mind in search of an answer to the human paradox: how can we be both so loving and also so destructive, to ourselves and to others? The answer: there is no such thing as a human mind; there are in fact many different human mindsets. The way people feel and behave depends so much on how safe they felt in the hands of their parental figures and on the social context in which they are brought up in and live.

The human infant’s utter dependency on the mother in early development means that, should she become unavailable or threatening, the infant can neither fight nor flee but only freeze and thereby disconnect. It is at this point that the infant brain adopts an alternative developmental mode referred to as the “traumatic attachment” with the potential to develop different mindsets to ensure survival in a frightening world where others cannot be trusted.

For many, the cost of these ways of feeling, thinking, and behaving outweighs the benefit: they suffer from the effects of addiction, prolonged grief, domestic and other forms of violence, borderline personality disorder, developmental or complex trauma, and other ‘disorders’. Conventional treatment often fails to find a way out of these debilitating behaviours. Through years of research and clinical practice, Felicity de Zulueta has developed the Traumatic Attachment Induction Procedure (TAIP), a revolutionary method which can lead sufferers to full recovery. Through the TAIP, it is possible to gain access to the hitherto unconscious or implicit traumatic attachment and its accompanying internal working models.

Healing the Fractured Mind is an uplifting account of several clients’ therapeutic journeys from a past of chronic suffering and shame to the discovery of their true selves with the freedom to realise their long-hidden potential. It opens a new avenue of therapeutic practice and research in the field of early developmental trauma which could alleviate the suffering of so many. This book offers comfort and hope to therapists, the general public, and society as a whole by sharing the knowledge that these conditions are now treatable.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
About the authors
Preface by Valerie Sinason
Introduction

1. The elephant in the room
2. Born to love and cooperate
3. Nature’s Stockholm syndrome
4. Eliciting the traumatic attachment with the TAIP
5. Reversing the traumatic attachment via the TAIP to heal PTSD and BPD
6. Healing “difficult to treat disorders” using the TAIP
7. “It feels like a big empty hole inside”
Monique Notice
8. The visceral impact of the TAIP: What could not be expressed by words is expressed through the body
Jayshree Unadkat
9. The importance of integration in healing traumatic attachment: case studies using Lifespan Integration therapy and the TAIP
Leonor de Escoriaza

Conclusion: Dissociation: The neglected portal to ill health
References
Index

About the Author(s)

Dr Felicity de Zulueta is an Emeritus Consultant Psychiatrist in Psychotherapy at the South London and Maudsley NHS Trust and an Honorary Senior Lecturer in Traumatic Studies at Kings College London. She developed and headed both the Department of Psychotherapy at Charing Cross Hospital and, later, the Traumatic Stress Service in the Maudsley, which specialises in the treatment of people suffering from complex post-traumatic stress disorder and other trauma-induced dissociative disorders. She has published papers on the subject of bilingualism and PTSD, BPD, and dissociative disorders from an attachment perspective and is the author of From Pain to Violence: The Traumatic Roots of Destructiveness and is a founder member of the London ACEs Hub to promote the study of ACEs (Adverse childhood experiences) and the application of trauma-informed care. She is the recipient of the Sándor Ferenczi Award 2020.
She lectures worldwide on the origins and treatment of complex PTSD and violence, has been a consultant to UNICEF and to the Singaporean army, and promotes the use of a video-based therapy called Video Interaction Guidance for the treatment of traumatised families in the UK, Italy, (Milan and Torino), Mexico, Ecuador, Ireland and Tanzania. She works as a freelance consultant psychotherapist with training in psychoanalytic psychotherapy, systemic family therapy, group analysis, EMDR, and Lifespan Integration. She developed a new therapeutic procedure called the Traumatic Attachment Induction Procedure (TAIP) and is currently carrying out clinical research on the traumatic attachment, its different manifestations, and its theoretical and therapeutic implications. This book is based upon that research.

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Leonor de Escoriaza is a clinical psychologist in private practice in Madrid. Her initial training in both France and Spain was the foundation for her integrative and transcultural approach. Leonor is a certified Lifespan Integration therapist, working mainly with adults with complex trauma and attachment issues. Whilst in the UK, Leonor worked with several charities focusing on expatriate, refugees, victims of abuse, and adults with intellectual and learning disabilities. She is also interested in equine therapy and therapy with the help of animals. She joined the TAIP research group in 2018.

Jayshree Unadkat, MBACP (Accred), is a psychotherapist in private practice working with culturally diverse individuals and couples, and also works in the NHS mental health services. She completed her master’s degree in contemporary psychodynamic counselling/psychotherapy in 2013. She previously worked as a counsellor with adults struggling with addictions and also with young and older carers. She joined the TAIP research group in 2012.

Monique Notice, MA, MBACP (Accred), is a psychotherapist in private practice with a very diverse demographic for short- or long-term psychotherapy. She has a background in nursing (RGN) and completed her master’s degree in psychodynamic therapy in 2012. In 2013, she became an accredited member of the BACP. She previously worked in an alcohol and drug agency that provide one-to-one and group therapy to people struggling with addictions. She joined the TAIP research group in 2012.

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