Early Traumatic Events & Implications for the Development of Emotional Connection: Two Case Studies Using Trauma Play Therapy with Children

In the last few decades, attachment theory has been embraced by a large scientific community in order to find a scientific explanation for secure and insecure attachment behaviors. This article aims to illustrate the importance of the early psychological context in which a prenate and infant develops interactions with the caregiver. Two case vignettes illustrate this way of looking at behavioral difficulties and show how prenatal and birth representations appeared during therapy sessions and were contained and expressed through trauma play therapy with the children.