Attachment Theory Books
Dynamics of Romantic Love: Attachment, Caregiving, and Sex
A theoretically and empirically rich exploration of universal questions, this book examines the interplay of three distinct behavioural systems involved in romantic love. Leading attachment... (more)
Working with Self-Harming Adolescents: A Collaborative, Strengths-Based Therapy Approach
Cutting, burning, drug and alcohol abuse, excessive risk taking, eating disorders - self-harm is an all-too-common and distressing part of teenage lives. Matthew D. Selekman sorts myth from fact and... (more)
Attachment Narrative Therapy: Integrating Narrative, Systemic and Attachment Therapies
This book sets out a framework for practice - attachment narrative therapy - that provides a new approach to working with families, couples and individuals. This is not offered as a prescriptive... (more)
The Making and Breaking of Affectional Bonds
John Bowlby's interest in the effects on a developing child of different forms of family experience began in 1929 when he worked for six months in a school for behaviourally challenged children. A... (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 from Infancy to Adulthood (Hardback)
See catalogue number 25120 for the paperback edition. This volume provides unique and valuable firsthand accounts of the most important longitudinal studies of attachment. (more)
Seeing Through Tears: Crying and Attachment
In this examination of crying behavior and the meaning of tears, attachment theory and original research is analyzed to present a thorough look at crying through the life cycle, and practical advice... (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)
Child Abuse and Neglect: Attachment, Development and Intervention
Offers a survey of the field of child abuse and neglect from the perspective of modern developmental attachment theory. The book opens with an account of the theory and describes the ways in which... (more)
Authentic Relationships in Group Care for Infants and Toddlers - Resources for Infant Educarers (RIE): Principles into Practice
Underpinned by substantive research on meeting the developmental and attachment needs of infants, this book offers constructive advice on how to encourage curiosity, confidence and emotional security... (more)
Sexuality and Attachment in Clinical Practice
The second book in the John Bowlby Memorial Conference Lecture Series. It explores our thinking about the developmental, relational and interpersonal aspects of the links between attachment and... (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)
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)
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)
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)
A Matter of Security: The Application of Attachment Theory to Forensic Psychiatry and Psychotherapy
This book also discusses the development of personality in terms of interpersonal functioning and relationships with others, which is essential to understanding both interpersonal violence and... (more)
Healing Trauma: Attachment, Mind, Body, and Brain
Leading researchers discuss cutting-edge ideas about the nature of trauma and its treatment.The contributors emphasize the ways in which the social environment, including relationships of childhood,... (more)
Attachment and Human Survival
What is it about childhood experiences that influence the kind of adult we become? For John Bowlby and others who developed Attachment theory, much of the answer lies in the quality of early... (more)
Attachment Theory and the Psychoanalytic Process
Attachment theory, the brainchild of child psychiatrist and psychoanalysis John Bowlby, has begun to have a worldwide impact among clinicians who are taking the attachment theory and research... (more)
PACTS 3: Bonding - infantile and parental attachments:
This series of practical guides has been designed for all practitioners - doctors, nurses, health visitors, social workers, counsellors, and anyone who works with children and their families. Each... (more)
The Search for the Secure Base: Attachment Theory and Psychotherapy
In recent decades, attachment theory has gained widespread interest and acceptance. However the relevance of attachment theory to clinical practice has never been clear. With Search for the Secure... (more)
Healing Pain: Attachment, Loss and Grief
Complicated losses give people psychological wounds. Healing Pain investigates why the process of grief is such a dramatic turning point for those who undergo it, and why they can never remain as... (more)
Attachment and Intersubjectivity
This book focuses on the understanding of the epistemological roots of attachment theory, conceptualised as a psychoanalytic paradigm, which highlights movement away from a 'one-person psychology' to... (more)
The Organization of Attachment Relationships: Maturation, Culture and Context
Focusing on quality of attachment as a central variable in developmental research, this text aims to provide theory and methods to understand human variation in interpersonal and cultural... (more)
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 preschool years. The book links the domains of social and cognitive... (more)
Early socialisation: Sociability and attachment
This text looks at sociability and attachment and how they relate to emotional and cognitive development. Social and cultural variations are considered, and theories of attachment and loss are... (more)
Attachment and adult psychotherapy
This work offers an understanding of key attachment concepts to psychotherapy with adults. Treating different forms of emotional disturbances from this perspective, Dr Sable illustrates how... (more)
Attachment Research and Psychoanalysis: Part 1: Theoretical Considerations (Psychoanalytic Inquiry)
Considers the clinical aspects of attachment research and psychoanalysis. Topics covered include attachment theory's contribution to the understanding of affective functioning in psychoanalysis, and... (more)