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Attachment Therapy with Adolescents and Adults: Theory and Practice Post Bowlby: Revised Edition

Author(s) : Dorothy Heard, Author(s) : Brian Lake, Author(s) : Una McCluskey

Reviews and Endorsements

'This book should appeal to a very wide audience. All of us seek to understand one another and in doing so we all draw on a kind of biological insight into what behaviour 'means'. Watching children from another culture and with another language we understand instinctively much of what their behaviour is about. This is a book that draws systematically on watching people and thinking about behaviour in a biological way. It is both thoughtful and fascinating. It is surely a foundation on which others will want to build.'
- Ian Sinclair BA (Oxon), PhD (London), OBE, Professor Emeritus, University of York

CONTENTS

PART 1: THE THEORETICAL BACKGROUND OF AN AUTONOMOUS SELF THAT IS IMMERSED IN THE DYNAMICS OF ATTACHMENT AND INTEREST SHARING
1. Introducing a new attachment paradigm
2. Introducing a new conceptualisation of the self
3. How the self communicates with other people and with itself
4. The defensive self
5. The careseeking self
6. The caregiving self
7. The interest sharing self
8. The sexual self
9. Diagrams depicting the interplay between five of the systems that take part in the dynamics of attachment and interest sharing
10. The self under threat and alone: supported or unsupported by the sixth and seventh systems

PART 2: THERAPY GUIDED BY THE NEW ATTACHMENT PARADIGM
11. The principles of therapy guided by the dynamics of attachment and interest sharing
12. Descriptions of training events that enable participants who are professional caregivers to experience the effects on the self of achieving and not achieving the goal of careseeking.
13. Working with an individual adult client with a focus on her defensive identity
14. Exploring the dynamics of attachment and interest sharing with groups of professional caregivers: The structure, composition and timing of the course of therapy attended by a group of professional caregivers
15. Exploring the dynamics of attachment and interest sharing with groups of professional caregivers: Findings that support a paradigmatic shift in therapeutic practice
16. Exploring the dynamics of attachment and interest sharing with groups of professional caregivers: How learning from attending the course is applied in a variety of work settings.

PART 3
Appendix 1. Bowlby's original ideas
Appendix 2. Ainsworth's contribution to Bowlby's ideas
Appendix 3. The Strange Situation Test
Appendix 4. The Adult Attachment Investigation
The Glossary