Description
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 illustrates the powerful potential for implementing the AAP in clinical practice for assessment, client conceptualization, treatment planning, analysis, and as a therapeutic guide.
Chapters discuss the full scope of incomplete pathological mourning for attachment trauma, including for the first time in the field Failure to Mourn and Preoccupation with Personal Suffering. Seasoned clinical researchers and psychotherapists provide a snapshot of their clients' unique attachment characteristics and defensive exclusion strategies as assessed by the AAP, and discuss how to use this information in treatment, as well as how to present the AAP results to their clients.
This book introduces readers to how the AAP can be used with adolescents, adults, and couples, and in custody evaluation and foster care.
Table of Contents
Part I Foundations
1. The Adult Attachment Projective Picture System
Carol George
2. Implications for Psychotherapy Processes and Outcomes
Steffani Kizziar, Katie Kivisto, Michael Poulakis
3. Clinical and Neurobiological Applications of the AAP in Adults and Children: Therapeutic Implications
Anna Buchheim, Manuela Gander
Part 2 Incomplete Pathological Mourning
4. Attachment Trauma and Incomplete Pathological Mourning
Carol George
5. Failed Mourning: The Sounds of Silence
Melissa Lehmann
6. Opening the Attachment Trauma Floodgates: Preoccupation with Personal Suffering
Caroline Lee, Carol George
7. Pain, Misery, and Suffering: Unresolved Attachment as a Predictor of Treatment in Male Combat-Related Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
Deane E. Aikins, Julie Aikins
Part 3 Adult Psychotherapy and Assessment
8. From Unresolved to Earned Secure: The AAP as a Powerful Clinical Tool in Psychotherapy
Stephen E. Finn
9. Embodying Attachment: Language and Somatic Revelations
Talia B. Shafir
10. Using the Adult Attachment Projective Picture System in a Transdiagnostic Approach During Psychoanalytic Treatment: Therapy and Neurophysiological Outcomes
Anna Buchheim
11. Confusion, Fear, and Loss: Clinical Application of the AAP with People with Intellectual Disabilities
Deanna Gallichan, Nancy Poulter, Alex Clark, Kate Stoneman
Part 4 Adolescents and Parents
12. Does Therapy Matter for Adolescents in the Foster Care System?
Linda Webster, David Joubert, Ashley Peterson
13. Using the Adult Attachment Projective Picture System in Pediatric Health Psychology: Parental Gatekeeping and Attachment Trauma in an Adolescent and his Donor Father
Marie Leblond, Marie-Julie Béliveau, Marie Achille
14. Dismissive and Blind to Attachment Distress: The AAP Unravels a Diagnostic Puzzle
Rex Collins
15. The Role of the Adult Attachment Projective Picture System in Treating Obesity
Claudia Mazzeschi, Elisa Delvecchio, Livia Buratta, Daniela Di Riso, Silvia Salcuni, Adriana Lis
16. Attachment-informed Assessment of Adolescent Conduct Disorder: A Case Study
David Joubert
