Full Description
This book presents an attachment-based approach to therapy that addresses the limiting and detrimental effects of negative early attachment experiences.
Our early attachment experiences with our primary caregiver influence the adult that we become. Attachment-based psychotherapy has two major components: establishing a security-engendering therapeutic relationship and helping the patient to communicate more openly and thus to access more adaptive feelings, thoughts, and behaviors. Psychotherapists of various theoretical orientations will appreciate this book amp rsquo s richly detailed conceptualization of common human problems and its clear treatment approach for addressing these problems.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Chapter : Attachment, Communication, and Affect: An Introduction
Part I: An Attachment-Based View of Development
Chapter 2: Why Mothers Matter: The Evolution of Maternal Care
Chapter 3: The Neural Sculpting of the Self
Chapter 4: Attachment
Chapter 5: Communication
Chapter : Affect
Part II: Attachment-Based Psychotherapy
Chapter 7: Defensive Exclusion and the Focus of Attachment-Based Therapy
Chapter 8: Anxiety, Depression, and Maladaptive Anger
Chapter 9: The Security-Engendering Therapeutic Relationship
Chapter : Deconstructing Aloneness: Helping the Patient Access and Communicate Excluded Thoughts, Feelings, and Behaviors
References
Index
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