ABSTRACT

According to Louis Cozolino with affect attunement that fosters their client's affect tolerance and affect regulation, and with narratives that help integrate their client's neural networks. Psychotherapists write about neurobiology agree that narrative seems to foster the horizontal integration of the left and right hemispheres of the brain. A parent who has trouble linking events and emotions in Cozolino's own coherent, integrative storylines will not be able to model or help her child create a coherent, integrative self-narrative. As Daniel Siegel describes the process, the left brain provides linear organization, logical interpretation of material, and the drive to understand cause and effect. Mentalizing involvement with their stories must enact our empathic curiosity, people reflective narrative bent must encourage our clients self-reflection, opening space for them to play with what they know, space where new self-coherence may coalesce on its own. Attachment theory describes in more detail how relational trauma affects a person's narrative ability.