Attachment Theory Books
What Made Freud Laugh: An Attachment Perspective on Laughter
In her characteristically engaging style, Nelson explores a topic that has fascinated and frustrated scholars for centuries. Initially drawn to the meaning of laughter through her decades of work... (more)
The Mother and Her Child: Clinical Aspects of Attachment, Separation and Loss
This edited volume focuses upon the formation of an individual's self in the crucible of the early mother-child relationship. Bringing together contributions from distinguished psychoanalysts and... (more)
The Adult Attachment Projective Picture System: Attachment Theory and Assessment in Adults
This book presents cutting-edge research on adult attachment together with a complete overview of the Adult Attachment Projective Picture System (AAP), the authors' validated developmental... (more)
The Sibling Relationship: A Force for Growth and Conflict
This book focuses on the role that siblings play in each other's development, on the ways in which they may enrich or cast a shadow over each other's lives, and on how their internalized influence... (more)
Brain-Based Parenting: How Neuroscience Can Foster Healthier Relationships with Kids
In this groundbreaking exploration of the brain mechanisms behind healthy caregiving, attachment specialist Daniel A. Hughes and veteran clinical psychologist Jonathan Baylin guide readers through... (more)
The Social Neuroscience of Education: Optimizing Attachment and Learning in the Classroom
This book explains how the brain, as a social organism, learns best throughout the lifespan, from our early schooling through late life. Positioning the brain as distinctly social, Louis Cozolino... (more)
Understanding Adult Attachment in Family Relationships: Assessment and Intervention
Attachment theory has become a key focus of both research and practice in understanding and treating psychological and social risk for marital and relationship problems, parenting and depression and... (more)
Connecting with Kids Through Stories: Using Narratives to Facilitate Attachment in Adopted Children: Second Edition
Adopted children whose early development has been altered by abuse or neglect may form negative beliefs about themselves and parents, and may resist connecting with others. This book outlines how... (more)
Mentalizing in the Development and Treatment of Attachment Trauma
This book brings together the latest knowledge from attachment research and neuroscience to provide a new approach to treating trauma for therapists from different professional disciplines and... (more)
Working with Families of African Caribbean Origin: Understanding Issues Around Immigration and Attachment
Many of those who emigrated from the Caribbean to the UK after World War II left behind partners and children, causing the break-up of families who were often not reunited for several years.
In... (more)
Attachment Theory in Clinical Work with Children: Bridging the Gap Between Research and Practice
Attachment research has tremendous potential for helping clinicians understand what happens when parent-child bonds are disrupted, and what can be done to help. Yet there remains a large gap between... (more)
Poisonous Parenting: Toxic Relationships Between Parents and Their Adult Children
How does the toxicity associated with particular parenting styles affect attachment? How do the contaminated views of themselves that children of toxic parents affect their relationships into their... (more)
Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy: Essential Practices and Methods
Grounded in attachment theory and trauma, Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP) is an evidence-based, effective, and empirically validated treatment for complex trauma and disorders of attachment.... (more)
The Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy Casebook
This collection of transcripts from sessions by certified Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapists gives therapists, educators, and child welfare and residential treatment professionals a detailed... (more)
John Bowlby - From Psychoanalysis to Ethology: Unravelling the Roots of Attachment Theory
This accessible book draws on unique evidence from oral histories and little-known archive material to shed new light on the working relationships which led to John Bowlby's shift from psychoanalysis... (more)
Disorganized Attachment and Caregiving
From leading authorities, this volume provides a state-of-the-art examination of disorganized attachment: what it is, how it can be identified, and its links to behavioral problems and psychological... (more)
Attachment-Focused Family Therapy Workbook
A practical workbook companion to Attachment-Focused Family Therapy (catalogue number 25237), the best-selling text that brought attachment into the realm of family therapy.
Daniel A. Hughes, a... (more)
The Road to Evergreen: Adoption, Attachment Therapy, and the Promise of Family
Reactive attachment disorder (RAD) is a psychiatric condition affecting children that is characterized by inappropriate and sometimes disturbing ways of relating socially to others, including... (more)
Attachment Theory and Research in Clinical Work with Adults
Written with the practicing psychotherapist in mind, this invaluable book presents cutting-edge knowledge on adult attachment and explores the implications for day-to-day clinical practice. Leading... (more)
A Short Introduction to Promoting Resilience in Children
A child's capacity to cope with adversity and stand on their own two feet is seen as critical to their development, well-being, and future independence and success in adulthood. Psychological... (more)
Healthy Attachments and Neuro-Dramatic-play
Neuro-Dramatic-Play and Healthy Attachments breaks new ground in the areas of attachment and child development. Based on sound experience and observation, Sue Jennings consolidates current theories... (more)
Primary Love: The Elemental Nature of Human Love, Intimacy, and Attachment
This book describes love and intimacy as they evolve in the context of family relations from birth to maturity in adulthood. Dr. Kleins view of love and intimacy is that found in the ideal marriage... (more)
Attachment Parenting: Developing Connections and Healing Children
Parenting for Attachment describes a comprehensive approach to parenting children who have a history of neglect, abuse, orphanage care, or other experiences that may interfere with the normal... (more)
The Impact of Attachment
How early infant-parent interactions can explain adult social and emotional relationships.
Combining theories of neurobiology, interpersonal relationships, and intrapsychic concepts, this book... (more)
Attachment Theory and the Teacher-student Relationship: A Practical Guide for Teachers, Teacher Educators and School Leaders
How teachers form and maintain classroom and staffroom relationships is crucial to the success of their work. A teacher who is able to accurately interpret the underlying relationship processes can... (more)
Understanding Disorganised Attachment: Theory and Practice for Working with Children and Adults
Disorganized attachment, the most extreme form of insecure attachment, can develop in a child when the person who is normally meant to protect them is a source of danger. This usually leads to 'fear... (more)
Attachment: Expanding the Cultural Connections
This book presents a current analysis of the theory and application of attachment within cross-cultural settings. It is a compilation of research, clinical applications, and theoretical... (more)
Transforming the Internal World and Attachment: Volume 1: Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives
Transforming the Internal World and Attachment reviews and discusses four theories about what makes psychotherapy effective across forms of treatment, treatment settings, and diagnostic categories:... (more)
Transforming the Internal World and Attachment: Volume 2: Clinical Applications
Transforming the Internal World and Attachment reviews and discusses four theories about what makes psychotherapy effective across forms of treatment, treatment settings, and diagnostic categories:... (more)
Therapeutic Attachment Relationships: Interaction Structures and the Processes of Therapeutic Change
The seventy-five years that span the writings of Sigmund Freud and John Bowlby - two minds that have significantly shaped thinking about the processes of change in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis -... (more)