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The Developmental Lens:
A New Paradigm for Psychodynamic
Diagnosis and Treatment
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The Developmental Lens: A New Paradigm for Psychodynamic Diagnosis and Treatment is the result of nearly thirty years of private practice, deep research, clinical supervision of candidate therapists in training, and teaching in psychoanalytic training institutes. At its heart is a three-fold purpose: one, to
demonstrate the dynamic course of developmental processes from birth into
adulthood through my original Model of the Seven Keystones of Healthy
Development; two, to demonstrate the Seven Keystones of Wounded
Development—what compromises healthy development as the result of
environmental and relational failures and acute and cumulative unresolved
trauma; and three, how to work clinically in these seven pivotal keystones for
healing and for transformed development. Innovative theory-making and
clinical applications seen through vivid case illustrations serve as my
contribution to contemporary psychodynamic/psychoanalytic theory and practice.
A must-read for every therapist, teacher, student, and patient who is working and/or living with the debilitating effects of trauma in search of revitalized development.
—Alitta Kullman, PhD, author of “Hunger for Connection: Finding Meaning in Eating Disorders”
The Flow Write Journal Series
The Flow Write Journal - Annual Edition: Seasons for Authorial Voice
The Flow Write Journal - Fall Edition: Seasons for Authorial Voice
The Flow Write Journal - Winter Edition: Seasons for Authorial Voice
The Flow Write Journal - Spring Edition: Seasons for Authorial Voice
The Flow Write Journal - Summer Edition: Seasons for Authorial Voice
The Therapeutic Flow Write Journal Series
The Therapeutic Journal - Annual Edition: Seasons of Healing-Annual
The Therapeutic Journal - Fall Edition: Seasons of Healing-Defense
The Therapeutic Journal - Winter Edition: Seasons of Healing-Awareness
The Therapeutic Journal - Spring Edition: Seasons of Healing-Process
The Therapeutic Journal - Summer Edition: Seasons of Healing-Engage
The Inside Children’s Stories Series
The Inside Children’s Stories Series portrays vivid and compelling experiences of the inner world of children. As caring adults, we aspire to ensure safe and enriched lives for our little ones. The benefit of such nurturing is that growing children become secure, confident, and develop well, able to express their thoughts, feelings, desires, and needs through their words and behaviors.
But life can bring either unintentional or intentional distress to developing children. Then, their stories change: children may not know how to communicate their stressors except through altered behaviors; they may be afraid to risk putting words to their inner lives; they are too young to cope without adult help.
This innovative Series offers children and parents, teachers, therapists, and other caregivers, unique opportunities. Each book, by Dr. Gwyneth Kerr Erwin, with its beautifully rendered illustrations by Jane M. Schichi and Jen Shakti offers psychological wisdom to the involved adults, while reaching the child’s distress. Together, adult and child find creative and healing solutions for the challenges young children are facing.
Inside Timothy:
The Inside Children’s Stories Series
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The premier book in this series, Inside Timothy, focuses on three-year-old Timothy’s struggle with separation anxiety, which is disrupting his core foundational need for secure belonging. In reading and talking about Timothy’s story and his relationship with his attuned and empathic mother, child and adult readers together find the path to re-kindling their own connection as they navigate both separation and reunion.
The Great Pig Circus:
The Inside Children’s Stories Series
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The second book in this series, The Great Pig Circus, brings us the story of young Luca who is being bullied at his new school by the older "town boys." Luca uses his vivid imagination to make up a fantastic tale to impress his bullies and become accepted by them, a story which only makes the bullying worse. Rescued by Lindy, who not only finds adult help but eagerly invites herself to The Great Pig Circus, Luca soon fails in every inventive way to wriggle out of his latest predicament until his wise grandmother offers a new path forward.
Via the story, child and adult readers discover the value of being one’s
true self and the power of friendship.
Flicker: The Talisman Dragon Who Sparks
Magic, Comfort & Transformations
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The third book in this series, Flicker:The Talisman Dragon Who Sparks Magic, Comfort, and Transformation, serves as the PREQUEL to the series, weaving the story of Flicker, a little dragon who does not want to become a warrior, even though he is to be the chosen successor to his father Reginald in ultimately becoming the King’s Dragon. Within ‘traditional’ dragon family dynamics, Flicker’s mother, Dymphnia, intervenes by supporting Flicker’s innate endowment as a Talisman Dragon who can transform himself into the very plushie stuffed animal any child (and Adult!) needs in meeting their deepest needs. In this enchanting story, exquisitely brought to life by the illustrations of Jen Shakti, even Reginald’s conflict and destiny is transformed through the power of Flicker’s courage and gifts, encouraging adult and child readers in their own quests to fulfill their unique purposes.
“Each small task of everyday life is part of the total harmony of the universe.” — Saint Thérèse de Lisieux