Attachment Theory Books
Attachment Research and Psychoanalysis: Part 1: Theoretical Considerations (Psychoanalytic Inquiry)
Considers the clinical aspects of attachment research and psychoanalysis. Topics covered include attachment theory's contribution to the understanding of affective functioning in psychoanalysis, and... (more)
Attachment and Development
Attachment theory is the current dominant theory of parent-child relationships and their influence on development. This text provides a general overview of attachment work, and examines the impact of... (more)
Myths of childhood:
Using empirically-based research from areas including behavioural genetics and attachment, this book builds a case against the primacy of childhood. It is an important addition to the literature... (more)
Personality and Mental Illness: An Essay in Psychiatric Diagnosis
A volume in the prestigious International Library of Psychology series originally published between 1910 and 1965. The titles include works by key figures such as Sigmund Freud, C.G. Jung, John... (more)
Attachment Theory, Child Maltreatment and Family Support: A Practice and Assessment Model
This text offers a comprehensive account of how social developmental perspectives and attachment theory can illuminate practice in the field of child protection and family support. It moves from an... (more)
Theraplay: Innovations in Attachment-Enhancing Play Therapy
Theraplay is a form of structured play therapy designed to strengthen the attachment between parents and their child. Dr. Evangeline Munns, a Theraplay therapist and trainer, introduces this... (more)
Love and attachment: contemporary issues and treatment considerations:
This work focuses on love and attachment in all of its permutations, and on the barriers that exist to achieving closeness. The specific social groups addressed include gender, class, race and... (more)
Attachment and psychopathology
This volume uses attachment theory and techniques in order to extend our understanding and prediction of psychopathology. Studies of groups such as divorced mothers, chronically ill infants, and... (more)
Facilitating Developmental Attachment: The Road to Emotional Recovery and Behavioural Change in Foster and Adopted Children
This book suggests how to work with emotional and behavioural problems in orphaned children, using the following approaches: distinguishing between old and new parents; adjusting the child to the... (more)
Attachment theory: Social, developmental and clinical perspectives
This volume is the outcome of a conference for developmental researchers and clinicians to explore the implications of knowledge of attachment. Approaches to the understanding of clinical topics such... (more)
The Earliest Relationship: Parents, Infants and the Drama of Early Attachment
T. Berry Brazelton, world renowned pediatrician and expert on infant development, and Bertrand Cramer, pioneer in mother-infant psychotherapy, have combined their lifetimes of research and practice... (more)
The Politics of Uncertainty: Attachment in Private and Public Life
This volume makes a case for strategies of co-operation at both personal and political levels, in order to ensure our economic and social survival in the 21st century. It looks at how each of us... (more)
Attachment, Intimacy, Autonomy: Using Attachment Theory in Adult Psychotherapy
Attachment theory provides a framework for thinking about relationships, particularly about those aspects of relationships which are shaped by threat and the need for security. This book explores the... (more)
The Politics of Attachment: Towards a Secure Society
The contributors - all distuinguished authorities from a variety of backgrounds in public, professional and academic life - share a common conviction that we all have a powerful need to belong, to be... (more)
Attachment Across the Life Cycle
Using contemporary research and clinical data, this book examines the extent to which psychological problems are rooted in early mother/child relations.
Attachment theory for social work practice
This work addresses the needs of social workers in understanding and assessing the nature and origins of disturbed social relationships, and examines issues emerging from and around attachment... (more)
Violent Attachments
Examines the diagnosis of individuals who show physical violence as a manifestation of their emotional attachments. (more)
Pre-Object Relatedness: Earliest Attachment and the Psychoanalytic Situation
Explores the primitive (yet highly complex) emotional world of the infant, a preverbal world that predates memory, symbolic representation, self-reflection and verbal description. With detailed... (more)
Attachment: New Directions in Psychotherapy and Relational Psychoanalysis - Vol.18 No.1: Special issue – Siblings
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 Narrative Therapy: Applications and Developments
This textbook provides an up-to-date guide to the application of Attachment Narrative Therapy (ANT), a model that combines concepts and techniques from systemic family therapy, narrative therapy and... (more)
The Psychology of Attachment
What do we actually mean by ‘attachment’? How do different caregiving styles impact attachment in children? How do early caregiving experiences impact later development?
The Psychology of... (more)
Attachment-Informed Grief Therapy: The Clinician's Guide to Foundations and Applications
Attachment-Informed Grief Therapy bridges the fields of attachment studies, thanatology, and interpersonal neuroscience, uniting theory, research, and practice to enrich our understanding of how we... (more)
Attachment-Based Family Therapy for Sexual and Gender Minority Young Adults and Their Non-Accepting Parents
Many parents experience fear, shame, and loss upon learning that their child is same-sex oriented or gender non-conforming. Therapies to help parents become more accepting and foster meaningful... (more)
Working with Attachment Trauma: Clinical Application of the Adult Attachment Projective Picture System
The Adult Attachment Projective Picture System (AAP) has served as a prominent assessment tool for adults and adolescents internationally for over 20 years. This book introduces the AAP and... (more)
Attachment: New Directions in Psychotherapy and Relational Psychoanalysis - Vol.16 No.1: Special issue – Attachment, Community, Identity, and Food
EDITORIAL
by Linda Cundy
ARTICLES
– You are how you eat by Andrea Oskis
– Dining in the dark by Toni Hoskins
– Dem belly full but we hungry: culinary spaces and Black masculinity... (more)
Systemic Therapy and Attachment Narratives: Applications in a Range of Clinical Settings
Systemic Therapy and Attachment Narratives explores how attachment-based ideas can be used in clinical practice by offering a practical and sophisticated exposition of clinical approaches. ... (more)