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In optimal or even good-enough circumstances, when a baby cries out, the cry alerts the mother to attend to the baby’s needs and comfort him. The two establish a rhythm of reciprocity, heartbeat to heartbeat, and they soothe one another’s distress. The mother of the child who will suffer developmental trauma perceives her child’s needs as assaults and pushes away. The child’s need is either ignored, subsumed, or puni