Attachment Theory Books
Attachment: New Directions in Psychotherapy and Relational Psychoanalysis - Vol.14 No.2
CONTENTS
EDITORIAL
My lockdown experience, our lockdown experiences by Gülcan Sutton Purser
OBITUARY
“What is brave is being part of a majority and standing out, not being... (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 Theory in Practice: Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) with Individuals Couples and Families
Drawing on cutting-edge research on adult attachment--and providing an innovative roadmap for clinical practice--Susan M. Johnson argues that psychotherapy is most effective when it focuses on the... (more)
Ethics and Attachment: How We Make Moral Judgments
Why are we disgusted when an elderly woman is robbed but sympathize with the actions of a Robin Hood? Why do acts of cruelty against a helpless kitten bother us more than does the trampling of ants?... (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)
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)
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)
Promoting Attachment with a Wiggle, Giggle, Hug and Tickle: A Programme for Babies, Young Children and Carers
Practical and easy to use, this resource is for practitioners working in early years settings to help children aged 0-2 to develop attachments with their parent or carer. Designed to be flexible for... (more)
Attachment Theory and Research: New Directions and Emerging Themes
This volume showcases the latest theoretical and empirical work from some of the top scholars in attachment. Extending classic themes and describing important new applications, the book examines... (more)
Attachment and Family Therapy
Attachment and Family Therapy offers an integrative, family-based approach to understanding and addressing the psychological and relational needs of distressed children and their parents. The book... (more)
Love in the Age of the Internet: Attachment in the Digital Era
This highly topical book explores the new technological environment we have created, and our adaptation to it, twenty-five years after the death of John Bowlby. In the space of just a couple of... (more)
The Origins of Attachment: Infant Research and Adult Treatment
The Origins of Attachment: Infant Research and Adult Treatment addresses the origins of attachment in mother-infant face-to-face communication. New patterns of relational disturbance in infancy are... (more)
From Broken Attachments to Earned Security: The Role of Empathy in Therapeutic Change
The 2011 John Bowlby Memorial Conference, 'From Broken Attachments to Earned Security - The Role of Empathy in Therapeutic Change', focused on what needs to take place to facilitate empathy and... (more)
What Makes Us Stay Together?: Attachment and the Outcomes of Couple Relationships
In recent years commentators have speculated on the “collapse” of the couple and the family, highlighting the increasing fragility of couple relationships making them vulnerable to crises and break... (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)
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)
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)
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)
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, Trauma and Multiplicity: Working with Dissociative Identity Disorder: Second Edition
This revised edition investigates the still unaddressed and unexplored subject of Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID). With brand new chapters on police work and attachment theory it has been fully... (more)
Trauma, Bonding and Family Constellations: Healing Injuries of the Soul
This book explores the different types of trauma experience, along with the bonding theories of John Bowlby and attachment work of Mary Ainsworth and others, forming a multigenerational picture of... (more)
Attachment and New Beginnings: Reflections on Psychoanalytic Therapy
This collection of written pieces plots the work of an NHS psychotherapist, Jonathan Pedder, turning the science of psychiatry into human encounters. He had a career teaching and inspiring colleagues... (more)
Sex, Attachment and Couple Psychotherapy: Psychoanalytic Perspectives
The contributors to this book have drawn on different mentors to provide a framework for understanding the sexual problems of the couples they see, and to inform the work they do. But whether Freud,... (more)
Couple Attachments: Theoretical and Clinical Studies
The couple relationship is at the centre of this book. The complex nature of the couple attachment is emphasized, drawing both on psychoanalytic concepts and on attachment theory. The chapters aim to... (more)
Unmasking Race, Culture, and Attachment in the Psychoanalytic Space
Drawn from the John Bowlby Memorial Conference, the theme of this book addresses the often hidden and ignored subject of attachment, race and culture. Can our individual narratives in relation to... (more)
Attachment Theory and Psychoanalysis
This book undertakes to demontrate that the relationship between attachment theory and psychoanalysis is more complex than adherants of either community generally recognize. Beginning with a brief... (more)
Pre-Object Relatedness: Earliest Attachment and the Psychoanalytic Situation
Explores the primitive (yet highly complex) emotional world of the infant, a preverbal world that predates memory, symbolic representation, self-reflection and verbal description. With detailed... (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)
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)