Affect Dysregulation and Disorders of the Self

Acknowledgments xi Preface xiii PART I. DEVELOPMENTAL AFFECTIVE NEUROSCIENCE The Experience-Dependent Maturation of a Regulatory System in the Orbital-Prefrontal Cortex and the Origin of Developmental Psychopathology 5(31) The Experience-Dependent Maturation of an Evaluative System in the Cortex 36(18) Attachment and the Regulation of the Right Brain 54(17) Parent-Infant Communications and the Neurobiology of Emotional Development 71(18) PART II. DEVELOPMENTAL NEUROPSYCHIATRY Early Organization of the Nonlinear Right Brain and the Development of a Predisposition to Psychiatric Disorders 89(39) The Effects of a Secure Attachment Relationship on Right-Brain Development, Affect Regulation, and Infant Mental Health 128(50) The Effects of Relational Trauma on Right-Brain Development, Affect Regulation, and Infant Mental Health 178(56) Dysregulation of the Right Brain: A Fundamental Mechanism of Traumatic Attachment and the Psychopathogenesis of Posttraumatic Stress Disorders 234(32) Effect of Early Relational Trauma on Affect Regulation: The Development of Borderline and Antisocial Personality Disorders and a Predisposition to Violence 266(41) Permissions 307(6) References 313(76) Index 389