Treating the Attachment, Not the Trauma

To treat the attachment itself is treating the trauma. So if somebody has disorganized attachment, it's an impossible dilemma for the child. That means the source of attachment is also the source of fear. The first was called ideal parent figures that we have the adult who has insecure attachment. Imagine that they grew up in a family different from the family of origin with a set of parents ideally suited to their nature. By having them imagine getting all the right things over and over again, they develop a positive, stable new internal working model for attachment. And what we found is that that has a profound organizing effect on state of mind. If you measure coherence of mind, it significantly changes in the