Revealing the Wounded Mind: An Introduction to Traumatic Attachment Induction Procedure

In Healing the Fractured Mind, Felicity de Zulueta and her co-authors offer the reader a journey into the human mind in search of an answer to the human paradox: how can we be both so loving and so destructive, to ourselves and to others?

The authors present the Traumatic Attachment Induction Procedure (TAIP) and show how they gained access to the hitherto unconscious or implicit traumatic attachment and its accompanying Internal Working Models. They discover that there there are many different human mindsets; that the way people feel and behave depends so much on how safe they felt in the hands of their parental figures and on the social context in which they are brought up in and live. This allows practitioners to manage, and in many cases ameliorate, some of the most intractable psychological disorders.

Dr Felicity de Zulueta is an Emeritus Consultant Psychiatrist in Psychotherapy at the South London and Maudsley NHS Trust and an Honorary Senior Lecturer in Traumatic Studies at Kings College London. She is author of From Pain to Violence: the traumatic roots of destructiveness and is a founding member of the London ACEs Hub. In 2020, she was awarded the Sándor Ferenczi Award 2020. Monique Notice MA, MBACP, is a psychotherapist with an earlier background in nursing. She started her private practice in 2012 and works with a diverse demographic of clients for short or long-term psychotherapy. She has also worked in an alcohol and drug agency, providing therapy to those struggling with addictions. She joined the TAIP research group in 2012. Jayshree Unadkat MBACP, completed her Master’s degree in contemporary Psychodynamic Counselling and Psychotherapy in 2013 and now works in both NHS mental health services and private practice. She has experience working with addiction and has worked in carer’s services, providing counselling for young and older carers. She joined the TAIP research group in 2012. Leonor de Escoriaza is a clinical psychologist in private practice in London (BPS), also working with survivors of abuse in a Catholic charity. Her initial training in both France and Spain was the foundation for an integrative and transcultural approach. She is a certified Lifespan Integration therapist and her work is focused mainly on Trauma and Attachment. She joined the TAIP research group in 2018.