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Early‐Life Trauma and the Psychogenesis and Prevention of Violence
Author(s) -
FONAGY PETER
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
annals of the new york academy of sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.712
H-Index - 248
eISSN - 1749-6632
pISSN - 0077-8923
DOI - 10.1196/annals.1330.012
Subject(s) - context (archaeology) , poison control , mentalization , suicide prevention , human factors and ergonomics , injury prevention , domestic violence , psychology , developmental psychology , medicine , medical emergency , geography , archaeology
A bstract : This article considers the development of violence with particular reference to family factors in violence such as the quality of the parent‐child relationship. In taking a developmental approach to violence, a link is established between the maltreatment of children in an attachment context and the risk of violence via the child's capacity to envision mental states in the other. Evidence from epidemiology and neuroscience is brought to bear on this link. Finally, some studies of prevention of violence that are likely to enhance attachment and mentalizing are considered.