Attachment Theory Books
Attachment Therapy with Adolescents and Adults: Theory and Practice Post Bowlby: Revised Edition
This is a revised edition of an important title originally published in 2009. It is written primarily for psychotherapists and other practitioners and describes a new and effective form of dynamic... (more)
Attachment Across the Lifecourse: A Brief Introduction
How do past relationships shape who we are today? Attachment theory offers a powerful model for explaining how our earliest relationships affect not only our development as children, but also our... (more)
Attachment Theory in Clinical Work with Children: Bridging the Gap Between Research and Practice
Attachment research has tremendous potential for helping clinicians understand what happens when parent-child bonds are disrupted, and what can be done to help. Yet there remains a large gap between... (more)
Poisonous Parenting: Toxic Relationships Between Parents and Their Adult Children
How does the toxicity associated with particular parenting styles affect attachment? How do the contaminated views of themselves that children of toxic parents affect their relationships into their... (more)
Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy: Essential Practices and Methods
Grounded in attachment theory and trauma, Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP) is an evidence-based, effective, and empirically validated treatment for complex trauma and disorders of attachment.... (more)
The Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy Casebook
This collection of transcripts from sessions by certified Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapists gives therapists, educators, and child welfare and residential treatment professionals a detailed... (more)
John Bowlby - From Psychoanalysis to Ethology: Unravelling the Roots of Attachment Theory
This accessible book draws on unique evidence from oral histories and little-known archive material to shed new light on the working relationships which led to John Bowlby's shift from psychoanalysis... (more)
Disorganized Attachment and Caregiving
From leading authorities, this volume provides a state-of-the-art examination of disorganized attachment: what it is, how it can be identified, and its links to behavioral problems and psychological... (more)
Attachment-Focused Family Therapy Workbook
A practical workbook companion to Attachment-Focused Family Therapy (catalogue number 25237), the best-selling text that brought attachment into the realm of family therapy.
Daniel A. Hughes, a... (more)
Assessing Adult Attachment: A Dynamic-Maturational Approach to Discourse Analysis
A method for identifying the psychological and interpersonal self-protective attachment strategies of adults.
This book focuses upon new methods of analysis for adult attachment texts. The authors'... (more)
The Road to Evergreen: Adoption, Attachment Therapy, and the Promise of Family
Reactive attachment disorder (RAD) is a psychiatric condition affecting children that is characterized by inappropriate and sometimes disturbing ways of relating socially to others, including... (more)
Self-Agency in Psychotherapy: Attachment, Autonomy, and Intimacy
A discussion of the self, both in and out of therapy.
For each of us, our thoughts, beliefs, desires, expectations, and fantasies constitute our own sense of a unique identity. Here, Jungian and... (more)
Attachment Theory and Research in Clinical Work with Adults
Written with the practicing psychotherapist in mind, this invaluable book presents cutting-edge knowledge on adult attachment and explores the implications for day-to-day clinical practice. Leading... (more)
A Short Introduction to Promoting Resilience in Children
A child's capacity to cope with adversity and stand on their own two feet is seen as critical to their development, well-being, and future independence and success in adulthood. Psychological... (more)
Healthy Attachments and Neuro-Dramatic-play
Neuro-Dramatic-Play and Healthy Attachments breaks new ground in the areas of attachment and child development. Based on sound experience and observation, Sue Jennings consolidates current theories... (more)
Primary Love: The Elemental Nature of Human Love, Intimacy, and Attachment
This book describes love and intimacy as they evolve in the context of family relations from birth to maturity in adulthood. Dr. Kleins view of love and intimacy is that found in the ideal marriage... (more)
Attachment Parenting: Developing Connections and Healing Children
Parenting for Attachment describes a comprehensive approach to parenting children who have a history of neglect, abuse, orphanage care, or other experiences that may interfere with the normal... (more)
The Impact of Attachment
How early infant-parent interactions can explain adult social and emotional relationships.
Combining theories of neurobiology, interpersonal relationships, and intrapsychic concepts, this book... (more)
Attachment Theory and the Teacher-student Relationship: A Practical Guide for Teachers, Teacher Educators and School Leaders
How teachers form and maintain classroom and staffroom relationships is crucial to the success of their work. A teacher who is able to accurately interpret the underlying relationship processes can... (more)
Understanding Disorganised Attachment: Theory and Practice for Working with Children and Adults
Disorganized attachment, the most extreme form of insecure attachment, can develop in a child when the person who is normally meant to protect them is a source of danger. This usually leads to 'fear... (more)
Shattered States: Disorganised Attachment and its Repair
THE JOHN BOWLBY MEMORIAL CONFERENCE MONOGRAPH 2007
The fourteenth John Bowlby Memorial Conference, held in London in March 2007, stood out as a special conference in a special year. It...
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Attachment: Expanding the Cultural Connections
This book presents a current analysis of the theory and application of attachment within cross-cultural settings. It is a compilation of research, clinical applications, and theoretical... (more)
Transforming the Internal World and Attachment: Volume 1: Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives
Transforming the Internal World and Attachment reviews and discusses four theories about what makes psychotherapy effective across forms of treatment, treatment settings, and diagnostic categories:... (more)
Transforming the Internal World and Attachment: Volume 2: Clinical Applications
Transforming the Internal World and Attachment reviews and discusses four theories about what makes psychotherapy effective across forms of treatment, treatment settings, and diagnostic categories:... (more)
Therapeutic Attachment Relationships: Interaction Structures and the Processes of Therapeutic Change
The seventy-five years that span the writings of Sigmund Freud and John Bowlby - two minds that have significantly shaped thinking about the processes of change in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis -... (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)
Changing Minds in Therapy: Emotion, Attachment, Trauma, and Neurobiology
There is an increasing clinical focus on how recent advances in research on neuroscience, attachment and trauma can be applied to treating patients with a history of early neglect and relational... (more)
A Practical Guide to Caring for Children and Teenagers with Attachment Difficulties
This book guides childcare professionals through attachment theory and provides techniques for caring for children with attachment difficulties. It explains what attachment is, what different... (more)
Infant Losses; Adult Searches: A Neural and Developmental Perspective on Psychopathology and Sexual Offending
An innovative view of the development of psychopathology and sexual offending. In an exciting synthesis of neuroscience, developmental, and social psychology with forensic and criminal literature, it... (more)
Exploring in Security: Towards an Attachment-Informed Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
This book builds a key clinical bridge between attachment theory and psychoanalysis, deploying Holmes' unique capacity to weld empirical evidence, psychoanalytic theory and consulting room experience... (more)