Attachment in PsychotherapyThis 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
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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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Page vii - Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen . at its height.
Page 15 - ... what is believed to be essential for mental health is that the infant and young child should experience a warm, intimate, and continuous relationship with his mother (or permanent mothersubstitute), in which both find satisfaction and enjoyment.
Page vii - The being who is the object of his own reflection, in consequence of that very doubling back upon himself, becomes in a flash able to raise himself into a new sphere. In reality, another world is born.