<p>There are different attachment styles: (1) secure attachment, (2) insecure attachment with anxious/avoidant and anxious/resistant subtypes, and (3) disorganized attachment (Ainsworth, Blehar, Waters &amp; Wall, 1978; Bowlby, 1988; Main &amp; Solomon, 1986). The child needn’t be abused to be in trouble, he merely needs to experience himself as abandoned by his mother. Reactive Attachment Disorder describes the effects of pathogenic care on the child’s ability to bond appropriately. These children are either hypervigilant, aggressive, and averse to comfort, or in fewer cases, inhibited, ambivalently needy, and withdrawn. They are suspicious of caretakers, a suspiciousness that, sadly, they come by honestly. They are prone to dissociative states and in the fugue of mother loss, they do not readily perceive their primary caretaker (Fisher, 2014, p. 4).</p><p>Often the mother of a baby may be physically present but emotionally absent.&nbsp; Even though mother may change diapers, feed her baby, and pick baby up from the crib, she may have difficulty interacting with the baby—that is, mirroring facial expressions, mimicking baby’s coos, eetc. The depressed mother who cannot, from her own deadened state, enliven her baby.&nbsp;</p><p>This could result in a dissociative EEG presentation, such as <b><u>mu rhythm</u></b>. Attachment research has shown that babies depend on face--, eye-to-eye, voice-to-voice emotional reciprocity (Bowlby, 1988; Ainsworth et al., 1978; Main &amp; Solomon, 1986; Tronick, 2007). Alexithymia means inability to describe or articulate feelings, and for some it means trouble recognizing that they even have feelings. (107), this type of symptomology would be present in a child who was not mirrored.</p><p>Sebern Fisher has seen excess slow wave (as low as 2 Hz) in the temporal lobes of people with developmental trauma. High amplitude, of 50 microvolts, is also seen. This can indicate dissociative processes. If there is excess slow wave—particularly delta to slow theta—at a particular site, it is not communicating adequately with the outside world; it is mainly talking to itself.</p>