Attachment in Psychotherapy

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Guilford Press, Mar 6, 2007 - Psychology - 366 pages
This eloquent book translates attachment theory and research into an innovative framework that grounds adult psychotherapy in the facts of childhood development. Advancing a model of treatment as transformation through relationship, the author integrates attachment theory with neuroscience, trauma studies, relational psychotherapy, and the psychology of mindfulness. Vivid case material illustrates how therapists can tailor interventions to fit the attachment needs of their patients, thus helping them to generate the internalized secure base for which their early relationships provided no foundation. Demonstrating the clinical uses of a focus on nonverbal interaction, the book describes powerful techniques for working with the emotional responses and bodily experiences of patient and therapist alike.
 

Contents

Attachment and Change
1
BOWLBY AND BEYOND
9
Mental Representations Metacognition and the Adult Attachment Interview
25
Fonagy and Forward
43
ATTACHMENT RELATIONSHIPS AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE SELF
59
The Varieties of Attachment Experience
84
How Attachment Relationships Shape the Self
99
FROM ATTACHMENT THEORY TO CLINICAL PRACTICE
113
Constructing the Developmental Crucible
193
From Isolation to Intimacy
211
Making Room
224
Healing the Wounds
242
Working with the Evoked
259
Working with the Body
292
The Double Helix
307
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David J. Wallin, PhD, is a clinical psychologist in private practice in Mill Valley and Albany, California. He has been practicing, teaching, and writing about psychotherapy for nearly three decades. Dr. Wallin is the coauthor (with Stephen Goldbart) of Mapping the Terrain of the Heart: Passion, Tenderness, and the Capacity to Love.

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