Attachment Theory Books
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)
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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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)
Telling Stories?: Attachment-Based Approaches to the Treatment of Psychosis
Telling Stories? explores the contemporary state of affairs in the understanding and treatment of psychosis. An inclusive approach to mental distress requires that in order to truly understand... (more)
To Be Met as a Person: The Dynamics of Attachment in Professional Encounters
This book is a thought-provoking read that sets out a framework for thinking about the way we interact with one another. It helps us make sense of the feelings we have when we are successful and not... (more)
Archetype, Attachment, Analysis: Jungian Psychology and the Emergent Mind
The author's ground breaking new exploration of expanding knowledge from other disciplines such as cognitive science and developmental psychology, and attachment theory and research evidence sheds... (more)
The Attachment-Based Focused Genogram Workbook: Expanding the Realms of Attachment Theory
The Attachment-Based Focused Genogram Workbook is a hands-on guide for clinicians looking to integrate attachment research and family systems theory into their practice, with particular attention to... (more)
Dementia: An Attachment Approach
This interdisciplinary book offers a relational perspective to dementia care drawing on attachment theory and practice. Relevant to professionals and public alike, it brings together innovative... (more)
Promoting Healthy Attachments: Hands-on Techniques to Use with Your Clients
Attachment theory is all the rage in therapy these days. But what does a therapist do with all the theory? This book presents successful attachment-oriented interventions for clinicians to use with... (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)
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)
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)
On Attachment: The View from Developmental Psychology
Attachment theory occupies an integrative position between psychodynamic therapy and various perspectives within empirical psychology. Since therapy began, its way of thinking has been to interpret... (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)
Raising Parents: Attachment, Representation and Treatment: Second Edition
Helping troubled parents to raise their children adequately is of crucial importance for parents, their children and society at large. Distressed parents have themselves often been endangered and, as... (more)
The Teacher's Introduction to Attachment: Tips and Strategies for Teachers, Carers and School Support Staff
Simple and concise, The Teacher's Introduction to Attachment offers an easy way to understand children with attachment issues and how they can be supported. Author Nicola Marshall combines her... (more)
Attachment and Interaction: From Bowlby to Current Clinical Theory and Practice: Second Edition
Attachment and Interaction is an accessible introduction to the history and evolution of attachment theory, which traces the early roots of attachment theory from the work of its creator John Bowlby... (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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
Promoting Positive Parenting: An Attachment-Based Intervention
Illuminates the successful implementations of one of the few evidence-based parenting intervention programs. More than 20 years ago the editors began experimenting with videotaping parental behavior... (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)
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)
Touch: Attachment and the Body
Drawn from the Bowlby Memorial Lecture, founded in commemoration of the influential Dr John Bowlby, this volume explores issues of the body and the historically taboo subject of touch in... (more)
Fifty Years of Attachment Theory: The Donald Winnicott Memorial Lecture
This is the second volume in the series based on the annual Donald Winnicott Memorial Lecture. Sir Richard Bowlby looks at the personal and professional lives of Donald Winnicott and Dr John Bowlby,... (more)
Infantile Sexuality and Attachment
Freud wrote in 1905 that children’s sexual life, although dominated by the erogenous zones, also has components in which, from the beginning, other people appear as sexual objects. These people — the... (more)
Adult Attachment and Couple Psychotherapy: The Secure Base in Practice and Research
Attachment theory has triggered an explosion of research into family relationships. This volume brings research and practice perspectives to bear on the adult couple relationship, and provides a... (more)