Attachment Theory Books
The Brain has a Mind of its Own: Attachment, Neurobiology and the New Science of Psychotherapy
Psychotherapy is a practice in search of a theory. Recent advances in relational neuroscience and attachment research now offer convincing avenues for understanding how the 'talking cure' helps... (more)
Attachment and the Defence Against Intimacy: Understanding and Working with Avoidant Attachment, Self-Hatred, and Shame
This book combines attachment theory and research with clinical experience to provide practitioners with tools for engaging with individuals who are indifferent, avoidant, highly defensive, and who... (more)
Doing Psychotherapy: A Trauma and Attachment-Informed Approach
Most books about doing psychotherapy are tied to particular psychotherapeutic practices. Here, seasoned clinical author Robin Shapiro teaches readers the ins and outs of a trauma-and... (more)
Attachment in Therapeutic Practice
This is a concise, accessible introduction to the basic principles of attachment theory, and their application to therapeutic practice. Bringing together 70 years' of theory and research, its expert... (more)
Trauma and Loss: Key Texts from the John Bowlby Archive
During his lifetime John Bowlby, the founder of attachment theory, was unable to publish as he wished due to strong opposition to his ideas. Now, with the support of the Bowlby family, several... (more)
Anxiously Attached: Understanding and Working with Preoccupied Attachment
Anxiously attached individuals feel chronically insecure and their relationships are often intense, angry, and enmeshed. In the spectrum of anxious attachment, some people tip into states of acute... (more)
Attachment and Adult Clinical Practice: An Integrated Perspective on Developmental Theory, Neurobiology, and Emotional Regulation
This comprehensive volume addresses attachment theory's history as well as its integration with neurobiology, psychophysiology, theories of emotion, regulation theory, and mentalization theory. It... (more)
Make Room for Baby: Perinatal Child-Parent Psychotherapy to Repair Trauma and Promote Attachment
This state-of-the-art clinician's guide describes Perinatal Child-Parent Psychotherapy (P-CPP), a treatment for pregnant women and their partners whose readiness to nurture a baby is compromised by... (more)
Sensorimotor Psychotherapy: Interventions for Trauma and Attachment
The body's intelligence is largely an untapped resource in psychotherapy, yet the story told by the "somatic narrative" - gesture, posture, prosody, facial expressions, eye gaze, and movement - is... (more)
Transference and Countertransference from an Attachment Perspective: A Guide to Clinical Practice
Locating the phenomenon of transference within an evolutionary perspective, this important book develops a new form of dynamic therapy that focuses on the dynamics of attachment in adult life and... (more)
Working with Attachment in Couples Therapy: A Four-Step Model for Clinical Practice
Through an exploration of extensive case studies, this book demonstrates how the discovery and examination of original childhood attachment wounds is crucial to couple therapy. As many as half of all... (more)
Attachment: Attachment and Loss: Volume 1
This classic examination, the first book in a psychology trilogy, of the processes that take place in attachment and separation and shows how experimental studies of children reveal a recognizable... (more)
Attachment Theory and Psychosis: Current Perspectives and Future Directions
Attachment and Psychosis: Current Perspectives and Future Directions is the first book to provide a practical guide to using attachment theory in the assessment, formulation and treatment of a range... (more)
Why Don't I Feel Good Enough?: Using Attachment Theory to Find a Solution
Why Don't I Feel Good Enough? Using Attachment Theory to Find a Solution offers a guide to how early emotional bonds affect our adult relationships and how psychological theory can help us to find... (more)
Separation: Attachment and Loss: Volume 2
The second volume of Attachment and Loss continues John Bowlby's influential work on the importance of the parental relationship to mental health. Here he considers separation and the anxiety that... (more)
Attachment: New Directions in Psychotherapy and Relational Psychoanalysis - Vol.14 No.1
CONTENTS
EDITORIAL
Attachment to Australia as it burns: a personal reflection by Jewel Jones
ARTICLES
– Thalassa, Confusion of Tongues, The Unwelcome Child and his Death Drive: Sandor... (more)
Nurturing Natures: Attachment and Children's Emotional, Sociocultural and Brain Development: Second Edition
The new edition of this bestselling book examines the essential research about children's emotional development, with an expert balance of theory and clinical implications. Integrating the latest... (more)
Addictions From an Attachment Perspective: Do Broken Bonds and Early Trauma Lead to Addictive Behaviours?
This outstanding book is an important collection of papers from the 2013 John Bowlby Memorial Conference by accomplished clinicians from different modalities who share their experience of working... (more)
A Secure Base
Controversial yet powerfully influential to this day, this classic collection of Bowlby's lectures offers important guidelines for child rearing based on the crucial role of early relationships. As... (more)
Loss: Attachment and Loss: Volume 3
In this third and final volume John Bowlby completes the trilogy Attachment and Loss, his much acclaimed work on the importance of the parental relationship to mental health. Here he examines the... (more)
Mentalizing in the Development and Treatment of Attachment Trauma
This book brings together the latest knowledge from attachment research and neuroscience to provide a new approach to treating trauma for therapists from different professional disciplines and... (more)
Ritual Abuse and Mind Control: The Manipulation of Attachment Needs
People who have survived ritual abuse or mind control experiments have often been silenced, accused of lying, mocked and disbelieved. Clinicians working with survivors often find themselves isolated,... (more)
Trauma and the Avoidant Client: Attachment-Based Strategies for Healing
This book looks at how to effectively engage traumatized clients, who avoid attachment, closeness, and painful feelings.
A large segment of the therapy population consist of those who are in denial... (more)
Affect Regulation, Mentalization and the Development of the Self
In a brilliant examination of the frontiers of human emotion and cognition, four prominent psychoanalysts combine the perspectives of developmental psychology, attachment theory and psychoanalytic... (more)
Search for the Secure Base: Attachment Theory and Psychotherapy
In recent decades, attachment theory has gained widespread interest and acceptance. However the relevance of attachment theory to clinical practice has never been clear. With Search for the Secure... (more)
Attachment: New Directions in Psychotherapy and Relational Psychoanalysis - Vol.13 No.2
CONTENTS
EDITORIAL - by Orit Badouk Epstein
ARTICLES
– Historical section edited by Brett Kahr
Bowlby 1939: “Hysteria in children” and the birth of attachment theory
A neglected... (more)
Addiction, Attachment, Trauma and Recovery: The Power of Connection
Understanding addiction is no longer just about understanding neurons or genes, broken brain functioning, learning or faulty choices. Oliver J. Morgan provides a fresh take on addiction and recovery... (more)
Attachment: New Directions in Psychotherapy and Relational Psychoanalysis - Vol.13 No.1
CONTENTS
EDITORIAL – Betrayal trauma: how do we hear it, how do we heal it? by Sue Richardson
ARTICLES
– Developmental trauma and unresolved loss in the Adult Attachment Interview by... (more)
The Mother-Infant Interaction Picture Book: Origins of Attachment
Using video microanalysis-which captures moment-to-moment sequences of interactions-Beatrice Beebe and her colleagues have turned their lens on the most primary of relationships, mother and infant.... (more)
Attachment in Psychotherapy
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... (more)