The developmental origins of disease and disorder

The developmental origins of disease and disorder

There are signs that various aspects of the human condition are under severe stress and this is being expressed in an increase in emotional disorders in childhood and adulthood (Schore, 2012).  The roots of psychopathology lie in traumatic attachment experiences....
The EEA hunter-gatherer childhood model: The Batek

The EEA hunter-gatherer childhood model: The Batek

Ethnographers have described a set of generalisations that may be called the hunter-gatherer childhood model (Konner, in Hewlett and Lamb, 2005). These descriptions suggest that modern-day childcare practices are discordant with those in the human environments of...
‘Hidden’ relational trauma in infancy and psychopathology

‘Hidden’ relational trauma in infancy and psychopathology

In relational trauma the caregiver is hyper-intrusive or inaccessible emotionally – disengaged with a tendency towards rejecting or inappropriate responses to the infant’s stress, providing minimal and unpredictable regulation (Schore, 2019a). This ‘caregiver induced...