Attachment Therapy with Adolescents and Adults : Theory and Practice post Bowlby / Dorothy Heard, Brian Lake and Una McCluskey.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-242) and index.

Introducing a new attachment paradigm -- How the self communicates : the emotive non-verbal signals of body language and interactions between people -- Introducing a new conceptualisation of the self : the autonomous self self immersed in the dynamics of attachment and interest sharing -- The defensive self -- The careseeking self -- The caregiving self -- The exploratory interest sharing self -- The sexual self -- Diagrammatic representations of the interplay between the systems with interpersonal goals and the danger/fear system following a threat to wellbeing -- The self under threat and alone : supported or unsupported by the sixth and seventh systems -- Transition from theory to practice : the principles underlying exploratory therapy -- Effective and ineffective caregiving : analysis of patterns of interaction -- Working with an individual adult client with a focus on her defensive idenity -- The structure and composition of exploratory group psychotherapy for professional caregiviers -- Exploratory group therapy : the task of the facilitator -- Exploratory group therapy : personal and professional applications -- Bowlby's contributions to attachment theory -- How the concept of security became part of attachment theory -- The strange situation test -- The evolution and importance of the adult attachment investigation (the AAI) -- Comparisons and cointrasts between Lichtenberg's motivational systems and Heard and Lake's goal corrected systems.

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This is a revised edition of an important title originally published in 2009. It is written primarily for psychotherapists and other practitioners and describes a new and effective form of dynamic therapy designed for working with adults and with adolescents. The theory, on which the new form of therapy is based, is centred in a paradigm that extends and crucially alters the paradigm for developmental psychology opened by the Bowlby/Ainsworth attachment theory. It describes a pre-programmed process, the dynamics sustaining attachment and interest sharing, which is activated as soon as people.

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