Description
This eloquent book translates attachment theory and research into an innovative framework that grounds adult psychotherapy in the facts of childhood development
Advancing a model of treatment as transformation through relationship, the author integrates attachment theory with neuroscience, trauma studies, relational psychotherapy, and the psychology of mindfulness. Vivid case material illustrates how therapists can tailor interventions to fit the attachment needs of their patients, thus helping them to generate the internalized secure base for which their early relationships provided no foundation
Demonstrating the clinical uses of a focus on nonverbal interaction, the book describes powerful techniques for working with the emotional responses and bodily experiences of patient and therapist alike.
… in a long time both as a clinician and client. As a somatic psychotherapist, applying concepts in this book is already helping me go deeper with clients, as well as helping me go deeper in my own therapeutic experience.
Excellent book
I think I am on my third, maybe fourth read of this book. It is very well written and targeted more to the therapist than the client. As such it is one of the few books that seeks to provide a perspective on how to use adult attachment styles in the therapeutic context. Should be one of the first few books a therapist picks up when starting into or trying to use attachment in the therapeutic setting.
I will use this book to help me understand the dynamics of the therapeutic relationship.
This book deeply and skillfully explains and integrates attachment theory, interpersonal neurobiology, and mentalization based treatments like no other book I have read. As a humanistic psychotherapist, this shed light on why some of what I am already doing has been effective and also opened many, many new pathways of how to move forward with my clients who have experienced attachment based trauma. I highly recommend this in both the print and Audible versions