Charity Number 1072133.
Welcome to The James Nayler Foundation
OUR 12TH ANNUAL
CONFERENCE,
we plan to expand our activities in East London in September 2010
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. - - -
Dr Bob Johnson has his own website - www.DrBobJohnson.org
The James Nayler Foundation was born out of the publicity surrounding Bob Johnson's work with those suffering the most extreme forms of Personality Disorder; the violently dangerous men in a special unit in Parkhurst Prison. His work with this group of people was widely reported in the papers and on Television, and gave hope that understanding and treatment was possible.
The Foundation was started in June 1997 as a non-profit making company, launched with individual donations of approximately £4,000. It quickly became clear that the foundation needed to become a charity in order to be able to collaborate with other charities and to access charitable funds. Applying for charity status was a lengthy process, finally completed in April 1999. A very useful meeting with the Charity Commission extended and registered our amended objects and powers to include conduct disorders in children. The James Nayler Foundation can now properly become involved in early prevention.
As a consequence of the setting up of the foundation, many hundreds of individuals, professionals and organisations wrote in, giving financial and moral support to enable work for Personality Disordered people to continue to be developed. The James Nayler Foundation was set up for the relief not only of violence and other severe Personality Disorders but for other forms of Personality Disorder which include such distressing conditions as self harming, anorexia and panic attacks.
