Schore, A. N.(2001)
Effects of a secure attachment on right brain development, affect regulation, and infant mental health.
Schore, A.(2001) The effects of early relational trauma on right brain development,
affect regulation and infant mental health.
In fact, it is through periodic attunement failures and subsequent repairs that the child
develops internal emotional self-regulatory resources( Schore, 2012).
At the same time, extreme distress during infancy- particularly chronic, prolonged fear states- have been associated with an enlarged amygdala, a feature of a brain that suffers from chronic anxiety and a hair-trigger fear response(Mehta,
2009, Schore 2009).