Attachment Theory Books at Karnac 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

by Alix Hearn

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

Edited by Linda Cundy

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.19 No.2: Special issue – “Ageing and eldership”

Edited by Kate Brown

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 and the Defence Against Intimacy: Understanding and Working with Avoidant Attachment, Self-Hatred, and Shame

by Linda Cundy

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

Edited by Linda Cundy

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: New Directions in Psychotherapy and Relational Psychoanalysis - Vol.20 No.1

Edited by Kate Brown

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

Edited by Orit Badouk Epstein

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

Edited by Orit Badouk Epstein

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.12 No.1

Edited by Orit Badouk Epstein

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, Climate Crisis and the Natural World: The John Bowlby Memorial Conference Monograph 2024

Edited by Linda Cundy

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.19 No.1

Edited by Kate Brown

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.2

Edited by Wayne Davis

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

Edited by Aysha Begum

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

Edited by Aysha Begum

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.1

by Aysha Begum

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.16 No.2: Special issue – Fathers

Edited by Aysha Begum

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.16 No.1: Special issue – Attachment, Community, Identity, and Food

Edited by Linda Cundy

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.15 No.2

Edited by Orit Badouk Epstein

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, Relationships and Food: From Cradle to Kitchen

by Linda Cundy

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)