ABSTRACT
This chapter reviews how ongoing advances in neuroscience have influenced—and continue to influence—the development of the ITTM as a treatment intervention that can reverse, resolve, or at least improve the injurious neurophysiological effects of complex trauma in children, and in adults who suffered as children. First to be discussed is the most relevant and up-to-date information available about neurobiological perspectives on brain development in children exposed to complex trauma. A critical review of the literature demonstrates how neuroscience supports the ITTM’s brain-based method for deconstructing and reconstructing negative self-formulations in caregivers and children, individually and in joint treatment sessions
