Working with the Developmental Trauma of Childhood Neglect

This book provides psychotherapists with a multidimensional view of childhood neglect and a practical roadmap for facilitating survivors' healing.

Ruth Cohn, MFT, practices psychotherapy and sex therapy and specializes in work with survivors of childhood trauma and neglect. She is also the author of Coming Home to Passion: Restoring Loving Sexuality in Couples with Histories of Childhood Trauma and Neglect.

1. Ancestral Roots 2. Seeing What Isn't There: Recognizing the "Child of Neglect" 3. The Therapeutic Relationship: Entering a One Person World 4. "But Nothing Happened to Me!" What's the Story? 5. Emotion: Teaching a Foreign Language 6. Sexuality: Unraveling the Conundrum of Need 7. Regulation of Giving: From Resentment to Reciprocity 8. Transforming Shame with Grief and Compassion 9. GPS 10. Beyond Words. Conclusion.