Treating Attachment Disorders: From Theory to Therapy: Second Edition
Book Details
- Publisher : Guilford Press
- Published : 2012
- Cover : Hardback
- Pages : 398
- Category :
Attachment Theory - Catalogue No : 33419
- ISBN 13 : 9781462504831
- ISBN 10 : 1462504833
About the Author(s)
Karl Heinz Brisch, MD, is a child and adolescent psychiatrist and psychotherapist, as well as an adult psychiatrist and neurologist and a specialist in psychosomatic medicine; a training psychoanalyst at the Psychoanalytic Institute in Stuttgart, Germany; and head of the Department of Pediatric Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy at the Dr. von Hauner Children’s Hospital at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, Germany. Dr. Brisch’s primary research is on the development of infants and children with high-risk conditions and the development of attachment and its disorders. He has led longitudinal research projects on attachment disturbances and early psychotherapeutic interventions. He is a member of the World Association for Infant Mental Health and of the Society for Research in Child Development, and is president of the German branch of the German-Speaking Association for Infant Mental Health.