Attachment Theory Books
Attachment and Development
Attachment theory is the current dominant theory of parent-child relationships and their influence on development. This text provides a general overview of attachment work, and examines the impact of... (more)
Myths of childhood:
Using empirically-based research from areas including behavioural genetics and attachment, this book builds a case against the primacy of childhood. It is an important addition to the literature... (more)
Personality and Mental Illness: An Essay in Psychiatric Diagnosis
A volume in the prestigious International Library of Psychology series originally published between 1910 and 1965. The titles include works by key figures such as Sigmund Freud, C.G. Jung, John... (more)
Attachment Theory, Child Maltreatment and Family Support: A Practice and Assessment Model
This text offers a comprehensive account of how social developmental perspectives and attachment theory can illuminate practice in the field of child protection and family support. It moves from an... (more)
Theraplay: Innovations in Attachment-Enhancing Play Therapy
Theraplay is a form of structured play therapy designed to strengthen the attachment between parents and their child. Dr. Evangeline Munns, a Theraplay therapist and trainer, introduces this... (more)
Love and attachment: contemporary issues and treatment considerations:
This work focuses on love and attachment in all of its permutations, and on the barriers that exist to achieving closeness. The specific social groups addressed include gender, class, race and... (more)
Loss: Attachment and Loss: Volume 3
In this third and final volume John Bowlby completes the trilogy Attachment and Loss, his much acclaimed work on the importance of the parental relationship to mental health. Here he examines the... (more)
Attachment and psychopathology
This volume uses attachment theory and techniques in order to extend our understanding and prediction of psychopathology. Studies of groups such as divorced mothers, chronically ill infants, and... (more)
Separation: Attachment and Loss: Volume 2
The second volume of Attachment and Loss continues John Bowlby's influential work on the importance of the parental relationship to mental health. Here he considers separation and the anxiety that... (more)
Facilitating Developmental Attachment: The Road to Emotional Recovery and Behavioural Change in Foster and Adopted Children
This book suggests how to work with emotional and behavioural problems in orphaned children, using the following approaches: distinguishing between old and new parents; adjusting the child to the... (more)
Attachment theory: Social, developmental and clinical perspectives
This volume is the outcome of a conference for developmental researchers and clinicians to explore the implications of knowledge of attachment. Approaches to the understanding of clinical topics such... (more)
The Earliest Relationship: Parents, Infants and the Drama of Early Attachment
T. Berry Brazelton, world renowned pediatrician and expert on infant development, and Bertrand Cramer, pioneer in mother-infant psychotherapy, have combined their lifetimes of research and practice... (more)
The Politics of Uncertainty: Attachment in Private and Public Life
This volume makes a case for strategies of co-operation at both personal and political levels, in order to ensure our economic and social survival in the 21st century. It looks at how each of us... (more)
Attachment: Attachment and Loss: Volume 1
This classic examination, the first book in a psychology trilogy, of the processes that take place in attachment and separation and shows how experimental studies of children reveal a recognizable... (more)
Attachment, Intimacy, Autonomy: Using Attachment Theory in Adult Psychotherapy
Attachment theory provides a framework for thinking about relationships, particularly about those aspects of relationships which are shaped by threat and the need for security. This book explores the... (more)
The Politics of Attachment: Towards a Secure Society
The contributors - all distuinguished authorities from a variety of backgrounds in public, professional and academic life - share a common conviction that we all have a powerful need to belong, to be... (more)
Attachment Across the Life Cycle
Using contemporary research and clinical data, this book examines the extent to which psychological problems are rooted in early mother/child relations.
Attachment theory for social work practice
This work addresses the needs of social workers in understanding and assessing the nature and origins of disturbed social relationships, and examines issues emerging from and around attachment... (more)
Violent Attachments
Examines the diagnosis of individuals who show physical violence as a manifestation of their emotional attachments. (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)
The Psychology of Attachment
What do we actually mean by ‘attachment’? How do different caregiving styles impact attachment in children? How do early caregiving experiences impact later development?
The Psychology of... (more)
Attachment-Informed Grief Therapy: The Clinician's Guide to Foundations and Applications
Attachment-Informed Grief Therapy bridges the fields of attachment studies, thanatology, and interpersonal neuroscience, uniting theory, research, and practice to enrich our understanding of how we... (more)
Attachment-Based Family Therapy for Sexual and Gender Minority Young Adults and Their Non-Accepting Parents
Many parents experience fear, shame, and loss upon learning that their child is same-sex oriented or gender non-conforming. Therapies to help parents become more accepting and foster meaningful... (more)
Attachment Theory: The Basics
This book provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to key concepts of attachment theory, from the work of its founder John Bowlby to the most recent research within the field.
The... (more)
Holdin Pott
A worn pressure cooker and a sweet little pot learn new ways of dealing with difficult feelings. Meet the Potts. Holdin Pott grew up learning to keep in feelings of sadness and anger. He is one tough... (more)
You Weren't With Me
Little Rabbit and Big Rabbit are together after a difficult separation, but even though they missed each other, Little Rabbit is not ready to cuddle up and receive Big Rabbit’s love. Little Rabbit... (more)