Attachment Theory Books
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
The Simple Guide to Attachment Difficulties in Children: What They Are and How to Help
Full of helpful information and advice, this is the perfect introduction for any adult parenting or caring for a child who has experienced attachment difficulties. (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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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 Theory: Working Towards Learned Security
This book covers the groundbreaking concepts in attachment theory, as promulgated by Bowlby himself and during the years post Bowlby. It sets out to develop the seminal concept of ‘learned security’:... (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)
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-Based Teaching: Creating a Tribal Classroom
An ideal text for teacher education and training, and even teacher-parent workshops, this book applies laboratory findings from cognitive neuroscience to the practicalities of the classroom. Louis... (more)
John Bowlby and Attachment Theory: Second Edition
John Bowlby is one of the outstanding psychological theorists of the twentieth century. This new edition of John Bowlby and Attachment Theory is both a biographical account of Bowlby and his ideas... (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)
Attachment-Focused EMDR: Healing Relational Trauma
Much has been written about trauma and neglect and the damage they do to the developing brain. But little has been written or researched about the potential to heal these attachment wounds and... (more)
Restoring Mentalizing in Attachment Relationships: Treating Trauma with Plain Old Therapy
The book provides a conceptual framework for treating trauma patients and illuminates relationship factors that are empirically associated with positive outcomes. Patients who have suffered broken... (more)
Addiction as an Attachment Disorder
'Addiction is a disorder in self-regulation. Individuals who become dependent on addictive substances cannot regulate their emotions, self-care, self-esteem, and relationships. In this monumental and... (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)
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)
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)
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)
Terror Within and Without: Attachment and Disintegration: Clinical Work on the Edge
This monograph of the 2008 John Bowlby Memorial Conference brings together papers by leading contributors to the field of attachment and trauma that explore the means by which individuals struggle to... (more)
