Attachment Therapy with Adolescents and Adults

Name: Attachment Therapy with Adolescents and Adults
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Suitable for psychotherapists and other practitioners, this title describes an effective form of dynamic therapy designed for working with adults and with adolescents. It deals with Bowlby/Ainsworth attachment theory that describes a pre-programmed process, which is activated as soon as people perceive that they are in danger. > 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 perceive that they are in danger. This process is made up of sevey