Dissociation, Traumatic Attachments, and Self-Harm: Eating Disorders and Self-Mutilation

摘要: Self-harm, such as eating disorders and self-mutilation, represents dissociated compensatory attempts to serve self-regulatory functions. Self-harm develops when the child who has become attached those have inflicted pain suffering maintains that attachment by inflicting on himself. Brain imaging studies found communication pattern between parent shapes way child’s system adapts experiences with figure, literally hardwiring brain. The good news is a safe secure very medicine can rewire An attachment-based multi-phase approach treatment presented.