The Impact of Complex Trauma on Development
Quite simply,The Impact of Complex Trauma on Developmentis incredibly well-written with a tremendous wealth of clinical knowledge. This book is very special and important for trainees because it is a critical resource book for the education on developmental trauma, the clinically meaningful interplay between trauma, behavior, and interpersonal relationships, and the necessary integrative approach to treatment(Nicoletta B. Tessler, Jackson Mental Health Hospital)Arnold and Fisch have combined their considerable talents to produce an accessible exposition of a complex problem, the effect of trauma on development. Written in clear prose, and using numerous vignettes, the clinician who is new to the study of trauma will satisfy their appetite for a text that provides them with just the right amount of detail, at just the right level of discourse. The experienced clinician will be provided with a thoughtful review of complex material. Both authors speak the language of dissociative processes while wisely not reifying the internal worlds of their patients. A psychodynamic perspective is enjoyed by the authors, and they also clearly integrate ideas from sensorimotor, attachment, and other cutting edge theoretical models that inform an understanding of the burdens our patients carry as they enter treatment.(Richard Chefetz, MD, International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation)Cheryl Arnold and Ralph Fisch’s bookThe Impact of Complex Trauma on Development... primarily [uses] a neuropsychoanalytic perspective, which is a relatively new school of psychoanalysis that blends traditional psychoanalysis with recent findings from neuroscience....The Impact of Complex Trauma on Developmentis truly a remarkable undertaking, and the authors have given us a text that brings together so much of what has been written about complex trauma and development by both the masters of psychoanalytic thought and the main developers of the complex trauma construct.(PsycCRITIQUES)