Nurturing Natures: Attachment and Children's Emotional, Sociocultural and Brain Development by Graham Music. Published by Psychology Press, Hove, East Sussex, 2011; 314 pp; ?.95 paperback.

摘要

It is not often that that the 'puffs' about a book contain as many superlatives as those for Graham Music's book do - nor, in my experience, is it often that the reviewer finds herself in such total agreement with them. This is an excellent book, deeply scholarly, yet one which makes the complicated child development research it describes lively and accessible. emotional and biological capacities. Yet the next moment is always open to possibility and although people have patterns in place, such patterns can be either confirmed or challenged by new experiences and new opportunities, (p. 242) As a child and adolescent psychotherapist, as well as an adult one, I found much of this research compelling. In trying to think what the mainly adult psychotherapist readers of the BJP might find relevant I thought that Chapter 10 on memories, Chapter 17 on trauma, neglect and their affects and Chapter 18 on resilience and good feelings might be of particular interest. Music (2009) has published a paper in the BJP using some of these research ideas and showing how they have influenced some of his clinical practice. Ideas about how memories are formed, specifically with ideas about the reliability of remembered abuse, could be of great use to clinicians, while the description (p. 212) of defensive and appetitive approaches seemed to me one that could help orientate me in work with certain patients. Music gives the example of participants, wired to display brain activity, being shown images of both happy and negative scenes. Subjects described as 'high in neuroticism' showed little brain activity