Attachment Theory Books
Affect Regulation Theory: A Clinical Model
Affect regulation theory—the science of how humans regulate their emotions—is at the root of all psychotherapies. Drawing on attachment, developmental trauma, implicit processes, and neurobiology,... (more)
Places of Safety: How Attachment Shapes Our Parenting
An updated, contemporary, and integrative perspective on attachment and parenting. Alix Hearn investigates how our capacity to parent is impacted by transgenerational, systemic, and environmental... (more)
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)
Attachment in Therapeutic Practice
This is a concise, accessible introduction to the basic principles of attachment theory, and their application to therapeutic practice. Bringing together 70 years' of theory and research, its expert... (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 Brain has a Mind of its Own: Attachment, Neurobiology and the New Science of Psychotherapy
Psychotherapy is a practice in search of a theory. Recent advances in relational neuroscience and attachment research now offer convincing avenues for understanding how the 'talking cure' helps... (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)
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: New Directions in Psychotherapy and Relational Psychoanalysis - Vol.16 No.1: Special issue – Attachment, Community, Identity, and Food
EDITORIAL
by Linda Cundy
ARTICLES
– You are how you eat by Andrea Oskis
– Dining in the dark by Toni Hoskins
– Dem belly full but we hungry: culinary spaces and Black masculinity... (more)
Attachment: New Directions in Psychotherapy and Relational Psychoanalysis - Vol.19 No.1
Attachment: New Directions in Psychotherapy and Relational Psychoanalysis is a leading edge journal for clinicians working relationally with their clients. It is published in conjunction with The... (more)
Attachment: New Directions in Psychotherapy and Relational Psychoanalysis - Vol.12 No.1
Attachment: New Directions in Psychotherapy and Relational Psychoanalysis is a leading edge journal for clinicians working relationally with their clients; it is a professional journal, featuring... (more)
Attachment: New Directions in Psychotherapy and Relational Psychoanalysis - Vol.17 No.1
Attachment: New Directions in Psychotherapy and Relational Psychoanalysis is a leading edge journal for clinicians working relationally with their clients. It is published in conjunction with The... (more)
Attachment: New Directions in Psychotherapy and Relational Psychoanalysis - Vol.17 No.2
Attachment: New Directions in Psychotherapy and Relational Psychoanalysis is a leading edge journal for clinicians working relationally with their clients. It is published in conjunction with The... (more)
Attachment: New Directions in Psychotherapy and Relational Psychoanalysis - Vol.18 No.1: Special issue – Siblings
Attachment: New Directions in Psychotherapy and Relational Psychoanalysis is a leading edge journal for clinicians working relationally with their clients. It is published in conjunction with The... (more)
Attachment: New Directions in Psychotherapy and Relational Psychoanalysis - Vol.13 No.1
CONTENTS
EDITORIAL – Betrayal trauma: how do we hear it, how do we heal it? by Sue Richardson
ARTICLES
– Developmental trauma and unresolved loss in the Adult Attachment Interview by... (more)
Attachment: New Directions in Psychotherapy and Relational Psychoanalysis - Vol.12 No.2
Attachment: New Directions in Psychotherapy and Relational Psychoanalysis is a leading edge journal for clinicians working relationally with their clients; it is a professional journal, featuring... (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: New Directions in Psychotherapy and Relational Psychoanalysis - Vol.15 No.2
CONTENTS
EDITORIAL
John Southgate: pioneer of attachment-based psychotherapy by Brett Kahr
ARTICLES
– The attachment antecedents of shame: mothers’ representations of the shamed... (more)
Attachment: New Directions in Psychotherapy and Relational Psychoanalysis - Vol.16 No.2: Special issue – Fathers
EDITORIAL
by Dr Aysha Begum
ARTICLES
– Sigmund Freud as the Father of Attachment Theory by Prof. Brett Kahr
– The Father in Psychoanalysis by Gordon Alderson
– Double Father... (more)
Attachment: New Directions in Psychotherapy and Relational Psychoanalysis - Vol.13 No.2
CONTENTS
EDITORIAL - by Orit Badouk Epstein
ARTICLES
– Historical section edited by Brett Kahr
Bowlby 1939: “Hysteria in children” and the birth of attachment theory
A neglected... (more)
Attachment: New Directions in Psychotherapy and Relational Psychoanalysis - Vol.14 No.2
CONTENTS
EDITORIAL
My lockdown experience, our lockdown experiences by Gülcan Sutton Purser
OBITUARY
“What is brave is being part of a majority and standing out, not being... (more)
Mentalizing in the Development and Treatment of Attachment Trauma
This book brings together the latest knowledge from attachment research and neuroscience to provide a new approach to treating trauma for therapists from different professional disciplines and... (more)
Sex, Attachment and Couple Psychotherapy: Psychoanalytic Perspectives
The contributors to this book have drawn on different mentors to provide a framework for understanding the sexual problems of the couples they see, and to inform the work they do. But whether Freud,... (more)
The Neuroscience of Human Relationships: Attachment and the Developing Social Brain: Second Edition
A revised edition of the best-selling text on how relationships build our brains.
As human beings, we cherish our individuality yet we know that we live in constant relationship to others, and... (more)
Anxiously Attached: Understanding and Working with Preoccupied Attachment
Anxiously attached individuals feel chronically insecure and their relationships are often intense, angry, and enmeshed. In the spectrum of anxious attachment, some people tip into states of acute... (more)
Attachment: New Directions in Psychotherapy and Relational Psychoanalysis - Vol.18 No.2
Attachment: New Directions in Psychotherapy and Relational Psychoanalysis is a leading edge journal for clinicians working relationally with their clients. It is published in conjunction with The... (more)
Attachment: New Directions in Psychotherapy and Relational Psychoanalysis - Vol.14 No.1
CONTENTS
EDITORIAL
Attachment to Australia as it burns: a personal reflection by Jewel Jones
ARTICLES
– Thalassa, Confusion of Tongues, The Unwelcome Child and his Death Drive: Sandor... (more)
Attachment and the Defence Against Intimacy: Understanding and Working with Avoidant Attachment, Self-Hatred, and Shame
This book combines attachment theory and research with clinical experience to provide practitioners with tools for engaging with individuals who are indifferent, avoidant, highly defensive, and who... (more)
Attachment: New Directions in Psychotherapy and Relational Psychoanalysis - Vol.15 No.1
CONTENTS
EDITORIAL
What happened to you? Attachment theory extended by Simon Partridge
ARTICLES
– The history of Scotland’s ACEs movement: grounded in a focus on relationships by... (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)