Attachment, trauma and the social environment

A bio-psycho-social perspective

Bowlby J (1955) Childcare and the growth of love  London: Penguin

Bowlby J (1983) Attachment and Loss, Vol I: Attachment. New York, Basic Books; available at: https://www.abebe.org.br/files/John-Bowlby-Attachment-Second-Edition-Attachment-and-Loss-Series-Vol-1-1983.pdf

Bowlby, J. (1988). A secure base: Parent-child attachment and healthy human development. New York: Basic Books.

Cozolinho L (2006) The neuroscience of human relationships; attachment and the developing social brain, Psychotherapy in Australia, 12(2)

Carroll R (2001) An interview with Allan Schore – ‘the American Bowlby’  : HERE

Doidge, Norman (2007) The Brain that changes itself: stories of personal triumph from the frontiers of brain science. ISBN 978-0-670-03830-5 (hc.) / ISBN 978-0-14-311310-2 (pbk.)

Folensbee, R (2007) The Neuroscience of Psychological Therapies, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Johnson, R (2013) , Chapter 2: Perspectives from the biological sciences, in Johnson, R, with Haigh, R (Editors) : Complex trauma and its effects: perspectives on creating an environment for recovery Pavilion : HERE

 

The myth of the triune brain

For criticism of the 'tr-partite' (or 'triune') brain theory, see for example:

  • A theory abandoned but still compelling (Yale School of Medicine) : HERE
  • Debunking the Triune Brain: An Outdated and Inaccurate Model in Neuroscience? (LinkedIn) : HERE
  • Your Brain Is Not an Onion With a Tiny Reptile Inside : HERE
  • Unlearning the Triune (3-part) Model of the Brain - It's a Myth?! (PACEsConnection) : HERE
  • The Brain Is Adaptive Not Triune: How the Brain Responds to Threat, Challenge, and Change (Frontiers) :  HERE

The Umwelt : HERE

Chapters

Psychologically Informed Environments from the ground up: Service design for complex needs : HERE

All other PIE publications : HERE

Chapters and content links

  • Foreword
  • Introduction : Full text coming soon.
  • Three Models of the Origins of Homelessness : HERE
  • Trauma is not the only psychology : HERE
  • The Window of Tolerance, the Drama Triangle, and the Adjacent Possible : HERE
  • Attachment, trauma and the social environment: COMING SOON
  • Strengths, ambivalence and paradox: : HERE
  • Pre-treatment : PIEs in the micro-social world :  HERE
  • Living in Temporary Accommodation : HERE
  • Unfinished business: COMING SOON
  • Afterthoughts : Full text coming soon.
  • About the author : COMING SOON

To purchase via Blackwell's : HERE