The James Nayler Foundation
                          dedicated to understanding and treating Personality Disorders

Welcome to the charity which takes it for granted that Personality Disorders and Conduct Disorders relate to earlier traumatic experiences.

The model is simple -- children growing up require a sound parental attachment. Where this attachment is robust, damage from childhood trauma is ephemeral -- where it is not, then the long term effects of trauma closely resemble those of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).

In effect, the individual becomes 'frozen' at an infantile stage - whence the continuation into adult life of survival strategies painfully and deeply learnt in infancy. Adult reasoning is needed to ensure contact with today's reality. Once adult survival strategies are in place, and being fully relied upon, then all symptoms of disorderly socialisation evaporate. - - - -

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stop press VIDEO - this is now becoming available courtesy of Google, with welcome encouragement from Tim Hollingworth.  One has already been uploaded - curing mental pain-1; a second may follow in due course.  A long video on Borderline Personality Disorder features some interesting interviews.  It is available at BPD video.

Two books are now available - the text of whose opening chapters can be read, under the book tab, or the whole book can soon be reviewed at www.amazon.co.uk for Emotional Health and www.amazon.co.uk for unsafe at any dose


For details of our 2009 Conference to be held on Sat 25th April in Friends House, 173 Euston Road, London NW1 see the Conference & Debate 2009 tab