Why read Ghosts from the Nursery?

Book cover of Ghosts from the Nursery: Tracing the Roots of Violence

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This new, revised edition incorporates significant advances in neurobiological research over the past decade, and includes a new introduction by Dr. Vincent J. Felitti, a leading researcher in the field. When Ghosts from the Nursery: Tracing the Roots of Violence was published in 1997, it was lauded for providing scientific…

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Why read it?

1 author picked Ghosts from the Nursery as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Alice Sterling Honig

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Building on the brilliant work of Dr, Selma Fraiberg, who published Ghosts in the Nursery, detailing the consequences for impaired mother-infant relationships when the mother has had traumas in her past and then is “unable” to hear her own baby’s cries and need for nurturance, these authors go further. They provide specific details of how, during the first three years of life, insecure attachments, violence, abuse, terror, neglect, and prenatal ingestion of drugs, lead to impaired brain development, emotional disturbances, and later violent behaviors.

From Alice's list on deeply understanding infant and toddler development.