Behind the Story: Healing the Youngest Victims of the Opioid Crisis [edsurge.com]

These are kids with disorganized attachments and developmental trauma.  The boys who throw chairs are in an activated fight response (we treat an activated fight response in pediatrics with antipsychotics and mood stabilizers and call it “evidence based”).  The ADHD in these kids is an activated Flight Response (which we attempt to treat in Pediatrics with stimulants and call it evidence based). The girls, they go along in their dissociative state (an activated freeze) not causing as much of a problem as the boys most of the time and this is the state that gets experienced by their infants as “frightened or frightening”  via implicit memory resulting is passing on disorganized attachment and a “personality disorder” or “bipolar” to their child in the next generation which we in medicine then call genetic inheritance as opposed to learned behavior (all learning is epigenetic and use dependent).  

In addition to these books, 2 are Dr. Putman’s... Allan Schore’s books are great. Dan SIegel Mindsight and The Developing Mind helps understand the attachment and implicit memory. Pete Walker’s book on those 4F types is great... and understanding object relations and intersubjectivity are all very useful information for Peds to start to get a real grip and understanding of child development. Also Beatrice BeBee has a book with a CD of clips of interaction between 4 month old babies and mothers - this is a great resource to really get it to sink in how this relationship is a dance that can go well or not go well.  Just my thoughts