A Report On The Translation Of Nurturing Children:from Trauma To Growth Using Attachment Theory,Psychoanalysis And Neurobiology(Chapters 2-3)

This is a report on the translation of the second and third chapters of Nurturing Children: From Trauma to Growth Using Attachment Theory,Psychoanalysis and Neurobiology.This book,published in 2019,was written by Graham Music.As an informative text,it aims to show how to use Attachment Theory,Psychoanalysis and Neurobiology to cure children’s psychological trauma,so as to give support to relevant clinical practice.The selected source text,namely,Chapter 2 One Foot in the Ditch and Chapter 3 Resilience,Mismatches and Repair,contains several cases of psychotherapy.For practitioners,this project will help them better understand both theoretical and practical significance of Attachment Theory and psychoanalysis in managing children’s psychological trauma.Moreover,this project can also provide some reference for nonprofessionals interested in this field.Featuring authentic language,the original text is rich in professional terms as well as vivid expressions.And the difficulties encountered in the process of translation are professional terms,culture-loaded expressions,abstract nouns and complex sentences.In order to make the target-text readers and source-text readers,professionals and nonprofessionals have similar reading experience,the translator,taking Eugene Nida’s Functional Equivalence Theory as her guidance,applies the translation techniques of annotation,conversion,division and reconstruction,etc.to smooth the target text.And this project has helped the translator deeply realize that contextual meaning and extensive reading of relevant texts are essential to improve the accuracy of translation.