[Early, repeated traumatization, attachment organization and developmental psychopathology--selected findings and...

Self-Psychology, as a segment of contemporary psychoanalysis, can claim merit as to having included the vastly accrued body of knowledge of pertinent fields of the human sciences into their clinical reasoning. This, in turn, has set forth a rebound effect which eventually has contributed to Psychoanalysis' still ongoing exodus from its long-lasting "splendid isolation". By presenting selected findings pertaining to attachment- and neuroscientific trauma-research, the author aims at hypothesizing with reference to the interface of early ontogenic attachment disorganization, onset of dissociative disorders and graded traumatic impact. Finally, in considering clinical relevance of the data, the author opts for composite strategies i.e. measures embedded in an overall psychodynamic treatment stance inclusive of occasional employ of EMDR and hypnotherapeutic interventions.