Attachment Trauma and its Psychopathological Domains Through the Neuropsychodynamic Model of Self and Trauma

Farina and Schimmenti’s model of attachment trauma offers a robust, transdiagnostic framework linking early relational trauma to complex psychopathological phenomena. This commentary expands upon their clinical conceptualization through a dialogue with neuropsychodynamic model of the self, as proposed by Scalabrini, and Mucci’s psychoanalytic theory of trauma, affect regulation and intergenerational transmission. Integrating different perspective from developmental psychopathology, affective neuroscience, and relational psychoanalysis, we further consider the therapeutic implications of restoring self-integration vs. traumatic disintegration, affective relationality vs. detachment reactions and mentalization vs. dysregulation of arousal and impulses across brain, body, mind and intergenerational systems.

• Publication year

  2025

• Venue

  Clinical Neuropsychiatry

• Publication date

  2025-10-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Psychology

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  DOI 10.36131/cnfioritieditore20250511PMID 41230359PMCID 12603935
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