Healing the Fractured Mind

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.

Auteur

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 is author of From Pain to Violence: the traumatic roots of destructiveness (Wiley-Blackwell, 2006) and is a founder member of the London ACEs Hub. In 2020, she was awarded the Sándor Ferenczi Award 2020. Monique Notice, MA,MBACP, is a psychotherapist with an earlier background in nursing. She started her private practice in 2012 and works with a diverse demographic of clients for short or long-term psychotherapy. She has also worked in an alcohol and drug agency, providing therapy to those struggling with addictions. She joined the TAIP research group in 2012. Jayshree Unadkat, MBACP, completed her Master's degree in contemporary Psychodynamic Counselling and Psychotherapy in 2013 and now works in both NHS mental health services and private practice. She has experience working with addiction and has worked in carer's services, providing counselling for young and older carers. She joined the TAIP research group in 2012. Leonor de Escoriaza, is a clinical psychologist in private practice in Madrid, also working with survivors of abuse in a Catholic charity. Her initial training in both France and Spain was the foundation for an integrative and transcultural approach. She is a certified Lifespan Integration therapist and her work is focused mainly on Trauma and Attachment, she is also interested in equine therapy and therapy with the help of animals. She joined the TAIP research group in 2018.