FREE EVENT
Date: 14 June 2025
Time:
Location: Online
About this event
In this presentation Dr. de Zulueta presents theoretical and clinical therapeutic work involving the traumatic attachment as it is extremely important to understand the role it plays in human development because of how it impacts the future development of infants and children who suffer from parental abuse or neglect. It also appears to be at the origin of so-called “difficult to treat disorders” like personality disorders.
So far, our knowledge of the traumatic attachment has been largely theoretical, described as it is in detail by Dr Allan Schore (2002). However, we now have access to animal research which explains its evolutionary importance, which Dr. de Zulueta will share with you. This is followed by an explanation and demonstration of the clinical therapeutic work carried out with adults using a procedure called the traumatic attachment induction procedure (TAIP), which Dr. de Zulueta originally named the traumatic attachment induction test (TAIT) (Zulueta, 2006b).
The research results confirm Allan Schore’s theoretical model and, in the process it has been discovered that we can enable the healing of the dissociated self to take place, which appears to restore the individual’s affected neurodevelopment and with it the possibility of living a “normal” life.
Dr. de Zulueta offers a 2 day online training with accompanying videos to any attachment trained psychotherapists who want to learn how to use the TAIP followed by 4-6 supervision online sessions. For the Spanish Speaking community the book: Healing the Fractured Mind: A Revolutionary Method for Treating Addiction and Other Disorders will be published in Spanish in September 2025 and a 2 day training course in Spanish is also offered.
Those who attend this presentation will be sent a copy of Dr de Zulueta’s article: the importance of the ‘Traumatic attachment in forensic psychotherapy: International Journal of Forensic Psychotherapy 2023
About the Speaker
Dr Felicity de Zulueta is an Emeritus Consultant Psychiatrist in Psychotherapy at the South London and Maudsley NHS Trust and an Honorary Senior Lecturer in Traumatic Studies at Kings College London.
She is a co-founder of the International Attachment Network with Mario Marrone. She developed and headed both the Department of Psychotherapy at Charing Cross Hospital and the Traumatic Stress Service in the Maudsley Hospital which specializes in the treatment of people suffering from Complex Post Traumatic Stress disorder.
She has trained in psychoanalytic psychotherapy, systemic family therapy, group analysis, EMDR and Lifespan Integration. She has published papers on the subject of bilingualism and PTSD from an attachment perspective and is author of the book From Pain to Violence; the traumatic roots of destructiveness (Wiley-Blackwell; 2nd Edition, 2006) and her recent book is “Healing the fractured mind, a revolutionary method for treating addictions and other disorders” (Karnak, 2024).
She works as a freelance consultant psychotherapist and lectures in several countries.