SOCIAL TRAUMA AND EMOTIONAL ATTACHMENT

Social and emotional attachment in the neural representation of faces.

To dissociate the role of visual familiarity from the role of social and emotional factors in recognizing familiar individuals, we measured neural activity using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) while subjects viewed (1) faces of personally familiar individuals (i.e. friends and family), (2) faces of famous individuals, and (3) faces of strangers. Personally familiar faces evoked a ...

Influence of adult attachment style on the perception of social and non-social emotional scenes

Attachment theory describes how people emotionally bond with others, utilize their social interactions to regulate affective needs, and how they differ in their attachment style. However, it remains unknown whether anxious or avoidant attachment is linked to more general differences in emotional processing for negative and positive stimuli, and whether such differences depend on stimulus conten...

Running head: LIFE SATISFACTION, SOCIAL SUPPORT, EMOTIONAL NUMBING, AND TRAUMA 1 Life Satisfaction, Social Support, and Emotional Numbing in Relation to Past Trauma

Attempts have been made to identify factors that moderate the effects of trauma and are associated with higher ratings of life satisfaction among trauma-exposed individuals (Pruneau, 2009; Rapaport et al., 2005; Zatzick et al., 1997). This literature has produced much data on the moderating effects of social support in relation to trauma/PTSD symptoms, post-trauma impairment, and life satisfact...

Promoting Attachment and Emotional Regulation of Children with Complex Trauma Disorder

Complex trauma is the result of repeated or chronic traumatic experiences in childhood. The traumatic experiences have a pervasive impact on the child’s physical, sensory, emotional, cognitive and social growth. This paper discusses how the proposed diagnostic category, Complex Trauma Disorder, identifies clusters of symptoms and behaviors that suggest the need for a multimodal approach to ther...

CHILDHOOD TRAUMA: ATTACHMENT, LOSS AND GRIEF 2.1 Trauma in Childhood