ABSTRACT
Recent work in the field of neuroscience, when linked to psychoanalytic and developmental research, has helped us to develop a better understanding of the impact of trauma upon both the mind and the brain of the developing child. In the previous chapter, Trowell has described some of the effects that traumatic experiences in childhood can have upon development, but in this chapter, I want to focus not so much on the impact of trauma per se, but more specifically on the ways in which a child's traumatic experience enters the consulting room, often in a state "far beyond words" (Lanyado, 2009).
