The Frightened Child - Danger, Safety, and the Risk of Closeness

Location: Zoom | Fees: $185 General Public

This online Zoom event will explore the link between childhood wounds and adult love, with a special focus on how disorganized attachment shapes later intimate relationships. Through a clinical tale, Atlas introduces The Frightened Child—a dissociated self-state that develops when a child learns that attachment figures can be sources of both love and harm. This state is characterized by the paradox of simultaneous longing for and fear of closeness. We will discuss toxic nourishment, the fantasy of reparation, the dialectic between safety and risk, and future struggles with intimacy.

Price includes a preorder copy of Dr. Atlas's new book out September 29, Come Closer, shipped to your preferred mailing address.