Attachment: New Directions in Psychotherapy and Relational Psychoanalysis - Vol.19 No.2: Special issue – “Ageing and eldership”

Editor : Kate Brown

Book Details

Publisher : Karnac Books
Published : December 2025
Cover : Paperback
Pages : 156
Category :
Attachment Theory
Category 2 :
Journals & Periodicals
Catalogue No : 98506

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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 Bowlby Centre, an organisation committed to the development, promotion and practice of attachment-based psychoanalytic psychotherapy.

The annual subscription includes two printed issues a year and includes complimentary online access from Ingenta Connect to current and past issues.

Reasons to subscribe:

– A leading-edge journal for clinicians working relationally with their clients;

– A professional journal featuring cultural articles, politics, reviews and poetry relevant to attachment and relational issues;

– An inclusive journal welcoming contributions from clinicians of all orientations;

– An international journal open to ideas and practices from all countries and cultures;

– A cutting-edge journal with the latest relevant developments in neuroscience.

Table of Contents
About the Editor(s)
Customer Reviews

Special issue: “Ageing and eldership”

EDITORIAL
“Without tenderness, we are in hell” by Kate Brown

ARTICLES

– Geriatric psychoanalysis: The impact of longevity on the mental health profession by Brett Kahr

– Elders and lightning rods by Sue Wright

– The growth and change in my professional and personal life as I age: The cost of being a psychotherapist and mortality by Gülcan Sutton Purser

– Being an older psychotherapist by Jim Pye

– Making meaning through the looking glass by Tamar Posner

– Part I—Embracing eldership across the lifespan: Valuing the rags of the elderly and the new wardrobe of the young by Caroline Adewole

– Part II—Eldership, attachment, and intercultural dynamics by Caroline Adewole

– The gifts of ageing and the Japanese art of Kintsugi by Philippa Smethurst

– Eldership and radical acceptance by Tom Higgins

– Prelude

– Attachment, trauma, and organisations by Mark Linington

– Infant attachment and the origins of dissociative processes: An approach based on the evolutionary theory of multiple motivational systems by Giovanni Liotti

– My marmalade passion—or, remembering Proust’s gloves: Poetry, creativity, and the unconscious by Alan Buckley

– Poetry

BOOK REVIEWS

– Is It Too Late? Key Papers on Psychoanalysis and Ageing edited by Gabriele Junkers
Reviewed by Pat Tate

– How to Grow Old: Ancient Wisdom for the Second Half of Life by Marcus Tullius Cicero
Reviewed by Pat Tate

– Being Ill: On Sickness, Care and Abandonment by Neil Vickers and Derek Bolton
Reviewed by Sally Rose

– The Hardest Passage: A Psychoanalyst Accompanies her Patient’s Journey into Dementia by Maxine Anderson
Reviewed by Sue Wright

– Life and Death: Our Relationship with Ageing, Dementia, and Other Fates of Time by Andrew Balfour
Reviewed by Sue Wright

– Nightshade Mother: A Disentangling by Gwyneth Lewis
Reviewed by Christian Howes

About the Editor(s)

Kate Brown, PhD, is a Bowlby Centre-trained UKCP-registered attachment-based psychoanalytic psychotherapist who started her career in therapeutic communities working with adults and adolescents individually and in groups. She has worked with young mothers and in community psychiatric services with patients’ families.
She has also worked with former servicemen who had experienced complex trauma. She is a course tutor at The Bowlby Centre, and has delivered freelance training.
Kate completed an MSc in psychotherapeutic approaches in mental health in 2012, and completed her PhD at Middlesex University entitled “Where is the love? A psychoanalytic history of the Cotswold Community”.

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