The Neuroaffective Relational Model (NARM), as it appears across the depth-psychology corpus, represents a clinically sophisticated synthesis of developmental neuroscience, attachment theory, and somatic psychotherapy, most fully articulated in Laurence Heller’s work on developmental trauma and adaptive survival styles. The corpus reveals NARM as an integrative framework that treats early relational disruptions—failures of attunement between caregiver and infant—as the primary architects of chronic nervous system dysregulation, distorted self-image, and compromised relational capacity. Heller’s five adaptive survival styles (Connection, Attunement, Trust, Autonomy, Love-Sexuality) each name a developmental moment at which unmet biological need precipitates characteristic psychological and somatic patterning. These survival strategies, once adaptive, persist into adulthood as sources of ongoing dysregulation. The corpus situates NARM in productive dialogue with Allan Schore’s neurobiological account of affect regulation and orbitofrontal development, Daniel Siegel’s interpersonal neurobiology, and the somatic approaches of Ogden and Levine. A central tension runs through these accounts: whether the curative agent in treatment is primarily relational re-attunement, somatic resource, or cognitive reorganization. What unifies these voices is the conviction that early attunement failures leave legible traces in both nervous system and identity, and that healing requires addressing both simultaneously.