Attachment Theory Books
Narratives of Attachment, Danger and Survival
Why is it so difficult to leave toxic, hostile, or alienating relationships? Why stay when your physical or mental health is at risk? Attachment theory provides a strong basis for understanding the... (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)
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 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)
Love in the Age of the Internet: Attachment in the Digital Era
This highly topical book explores the new technological environment we have created, and our adaptation to it, twenty-five years after the death of John Bowlby. In the space of just a couple of... (more)
Attachment, Climate Crisis and the Natural World: The John Bowlby Memorial Conference Monograph 2024
Attachment, Climate Crisis and the Natural World is the first book to consider the psychological and social impact of global warming through the lens of attachment theory. The contributors reflect on... (more)
Attachment: New Directions in Psychotherapy and Relational Psychoanalysis - Vol.16 No.1: Special issue – Attachment, Community, Identity, and Food
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, Relationships and Food: From Cradle to Kitchen
Using attachment theory as a lens for understanding the role of food in our everyday lives, this book explores relationships with other people, with ourselves and between client and therapist,... (more)