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

Powerful. Wonderful. Smart. Inspirational read. WARNING TO NON-CLINICIANS: The book is written for therapist, so it’s a little technical for an untrained reader, and probably not as useful as some other books on the subject. A better option for a non therapist reader would be The Body Keeps the Score by......more

Accurately draws together all major lines of theory and research. Their approach views developmental trauma as leading to five main adaptive/organizing styles relating to connection, attunement, trust, autonomy, and love-sexuality. What style one acquires depends on the age when trauma began. Most of......more

If I were just reviewing the second half of this book I would give it four stars. The clinical vignettes, interventions, and approach to psychotherapy are illuminating, exciting, and immediately applicable. The focus on the body, integrating experience, and facilitating self-regulation are excellent......more

A really useful book for anyone dealing with the effects of childhood trauma, or even the consequences of later "shock" trauma. With a small grounding in these techniques some decades ago, I have by instinct worked out ways to process much of the traumatic experiences that have been so much part of......more

Lawrence Heller and Aline Lapierre deliver a brilliant synthesis of developmental psychology, psychoanalytic theory and the work of Peter Levine (Somatic Experienceing). Heller and Lapierre bring together "top down" and "bottom up" approaches to understanding and intervening in with challenges of de......more