Attachment Theory Books
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
Teenagers and Attachment: Helping Adolescents Engage with Life and Learning
Adults working with or caring for teenagers at school and in the community have one outcome in mind: to engage them in the richest depths of experience life can offer - rewarding relationships and... (more)
Attachment-Focused Parenting: Effective Strategies to Care for Children
Attachment security and affect regulation have long been buzz words in therapy circles, but many of these ideas - so integral to successful therapeutic work with children and adolescents - have yet... (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 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)
Love and Loss: The Roots of Grief and its Complications
Loving and grieving are two sides of the 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)
The Role of Brief Therapy in Attachment Disorders
The Role of Brief Therapy in Attachment Disorders provides a comprehensive summary of the range of approaches that exist within the brief therapy world, including Cognitive Analytic Therapy,... (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)
Teaching the Unteachable: Practical Ideas to Give Teachers Hope and Help When Behaviour Management Strategies Fail
There are a wealth of teaching books with strategies and tips for dealing with challenging behaviour and disruptive students. Most teachers know a variety of strategies and have had some success in... (more)
Clinical Applications of the Adult Attachment Interview
The Adult Attachment Interview (AAI) is both a mainstay of attachment research and a powerful clinical tool. This unique book provides a thorough introduction to the AAI and its use as an adjunct to... (more)