Healing Developmental Trauma

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

By: Laurence Heller, Aline Lapierre

Narrated by: Tom Perkins

Explaining that an impaired capacity for connection to self and to others underlies most psychological and many physiological problems, clinicians Laurence Heller, PhD, and Aline LaPierre, PsyD, introduce the NeuroAffective Relational Model™ (NARM), a unified approach to developmental, attachment, and shock trauma that 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.

©2012 Laurence Heller, PhD, and Aline LaPierre, PsyD (P)2015 Tantor

Critic reviews

" Healing Developmental Trauma presents a comprehensive exploration of our deepest human urge." (Peter A Levine, PhD, author of In an Unspoken Voice)

A Must Read if you like reading about healing

I really enjoyed this book. it was a great read. Especially if you are interested in learning how a person can heal and recover

great information

It reads as more of a textbook, but the author does note in the beginning that it was originally written for students taking psychology. It was easy to comprehend, and I thought the case studies included were fascinating.

Therapist

I’m an LCSW and this book is what I’ve been looking for. Absolutely recommend to clinicians and clients.

Changed My Life

As an adoptee from birth I never had a place to attribute the pain of loss that was held in my soul. Society demanded gratefulness but all I felt was pain, so I disconnected from my emotions for many years.

This book gave my pain a voice and brought my subconscious patterns to the forefront for me to investigate and refine.

I am validated. My negative patterns are learned and not genetic. My life is changed, thank you.

Learning the different patterns

This vwas an excellent book to listen to I am on my healing journey this bbook gave me so many missing pieces I was looking for.