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Attachment Trauma and its Psychopathological Domains Through the Neuropsychodynamic Model of Self and Trauma
Andrea Scalabrini1, Clara Mucci1
1Department of Human and Social Sciences, University of Bergamo, Italy.
Abstract:
Farina and Schimmenti's model of attachment trauma offers a robust, transdiagnostic framework linking early relational trauma to complex psychopathological phenomena. This commentary expands upon their clinical conceptualization through a dialogue with neuropsychodynamic model of the self, as proposed by Scalabrini, and Mucci's psychoanalytic theory of trauma, affect regulation and intergenerational transmission. Integrating different perspective from developmental psychopathology, affective neuroscience, and relational psychoanalysis, we further consider the therapeutic implications of restoring self-integration vs. traumatic disintegration, affective relationality vs. detachment reactions and mentalization vs. dysregulation of arousal and impulses across brain, body, mind and intergenerational systems.
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