Attachment Theory Books
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)
Healing Relational Trauma with Attachment-Focused Interventions: Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy with Children and Families
DDP is an attachment-focused treatment for children and adolescents who experience abuse and neglect and who are now living in stable foster and adoptive families. Its central interventions are... (more)
Wisdom, Attachment, and Love in Trauma Therapy: Beyond Evidence-Based Practice
Wisdom, Attachment, and Love in Trauma Therapy focuses on the creation of the therapist as healing presence rather than technique administrator-in other words, how to be rather than what to do.... (more)
Mother Infant Attachment and Psychoanalysis: The Eyes of Shame
Brings together theoretical interpretations of shame with clinical studies and integrates major concepts from psychoanalysis, Jungian analysis, developmental psychology and anthropology. The result... (more)
The Organization of Attachment Relationships: Maturation, Culture, and Context
Focusing on quality of attachment as a central variable in developmental research, this text aims to provide theory and methods to understand human variation in interpersonal and cultural... (more)
Love and Loss: The Roots of Grief and Its Complications
Loving and grieving are two sides ofthe same coin: we cannot have one without risking the other. Only by understanding the nature and pattern of loving can we begin to understand the problems of... (more)
Emotional Development in Psychoanalysis, Attachment Theory and Neuroscience: Creating Connections
Drawing on a wide range of detailed case studies with subjects across childhood and adolescence, this book provides insight into how very different schools of thought can work together to achieve... (more)
Attachment and family systems: Conceptual, empirical and therapeutic relatedness
Attachment and Family Systems is a cogent and compelling text addressing the undeniable overlap between two systems of thought that deal with the nature of interpersonal relationships and how these... (more)
Attachment Processes in Couple and Family Therapy
This practical book presents cutting-edge approaches to couple and family therapy that use attachment theory as the basis for new clinical understandings. Fresh and provocative insights are provided... (more)
Handbook of Attachment-Based Interventions
The first volume to showcase science-based interventions that have been demonstrated effective in promoting attachment security, this is a vital reference and clinical guide for practitioners. With a... (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)
Mothering Babies In Domestic Violence: Beyond Attachment Theory
Drawing on in-depth interviews and group discussions, this timely book sheds new light on the impact of domestic violence on the formation of mother/infant relationships by placing women's... (more)
The Attachment Bond: Affectional Ties Across the Lifespan
The Attachment Bond: Affectional Ties across the Lifespan draws together and evaluates the vast body of research on the causes and consequences of attachment security in infants, growing children,... (more)
Building the Bonds of Attachment: Awakening Love in Deeply Traumatized Children: Third Edition
A highly accessible resource for students and professionals as well as parents, Building the Bonds of Attachment presents a composite case study of one child's developmental course following years of... (more)
Foundations for Attachment Training Resource: The Six-Session Programme for Parents of Traumatized Children
Foundations for Attachment Training Resource is a 6-session programme to help parents and carers to nurture attachments with their child. It is designed specifically for those caring for children... (more)
Staying Attached: Fathers and Children in Troubled Times
This book is about the changing social contexts for fathering in the United Kingdom since the end of the Second World War, and the social moves from patriarchal fatherhood to multiple ways of doing... (more)
How People Change: Relationships and Neuroplasticity in Psychotherapy
Growth and change are at the heart of all successful psychotherapy. Regardless of one's clinical orientation or style, psychotherapy is an emerging process that s created moment by moment, between... (more)
Attachment-Based Yoga and Meditation for Trauma Recovery: Simple, Safe, and Effective Practices for Therapy
This book offers an array of yoga, mind-body and attachment-based skills for therapists to use with, and teach their clients. The skills are organised around key trauma issues and symptoms, such as... (more)
A Short Introduction to Attachment and Attachment Disorder: Second Edition
Concise and easy-to-understand, this book provides an introduction to what attachment means and how to recognise attachment disorder in children. Colby Pearce explains how complex problems in... (more)
Mothering without a Home: Attachment Representations and Behaviors of Homeless Mothers and Children
Homeless women and their children who reside in a transitional housing facility or shelter have experienced multiple traumas and disruptions in their earliest attachments. These multiple, chronic... (more)
Security of Attachment and the Social Development of Cognition
Security of Attachment and the Social Development of Cognition investigates how children's security of attachment in infancy is related to various aspects of their cognitive development over the... (more)
The Circle of Security Intervention: Enhancing Attachment in Early Parent-Child Relationships
Presenting both a theoretical foundation and proven strategies for helping caregivers become more attuned and responsive to their young children's emotional needs (ages 0-5), this is the first... (more)
Encounters with John Bowlby: Tales of Attachment
Encounters with John Bowlby: Tales of Attachment is an insightful, heartfelt and faithful homage to John Bowlby (1907-1990), the 'father' of attachment theory. The book unfolds as a touching and... (more)
To Be Met as a Person at Work: The Effect of Early Attachment Experiences on Work Relationships
This book provides an account of how the 'Theory of Attachment-Based Exploratory Interest Sharing' (TABEIS) and the practice of Goal Corrected Empathic Attunement (GCEA) was used in a university... (more)
Dancing Between Hope and Despair: Trauma, Attachment and the Therapeutic Relationship
Why is hope so fundamental to our existence?
In considering this and many other questions, this evocative book introduces the reader to the repeated shifting, or 'dance', between hope and... (more)
Social and Emotional Development: Attachment Relationships and the Emerging Self
From the moment we are born our relationships with others play a vital role in our development. Have you ever wondered how an infant develops attachments? Or why these relationships influence a... (more)
Attachment Disturbances in Adults: Treatment for Comprehensive Repair
Attachment Disturbances in Adults offers an innovative therapeutic model and set of methods for treating adult patients with dismissing, anxious-preoccupied, or disorganized attachment. With rich... (more)