Background: Attachment Science Introduction Attachment's Principals and Principles Attachment-informed Psychotherapy: Definition and Overview Affect Regulation in Attachment and Psychotherapy Sensitivity, Mirroring, and Play: Foundations of Attachment Security in Caregivers and Therapists The Neuroscience of Parental Sensitivity Mentalising 'Earned Security': Attachment and Resilience 'Organised Insecurity': Fostering Security through Therapeutic Conversations 'Disorganised Insecurity': Attachment Approaches to Complex Disorders From Stasis to Movement: An Attachment Model of Psychotherapeutic Change The Improbable Profession: An Attachment-Bayesian Model of Psychodynamic Change Attachment, Mentalising, and Child Psychotherapy: Working with Parents Attachment in Couples and Families Attachment and Society Epilogue Selected Attachment Bibliography References
Arietta Slade, Ph.D., is Clinical Professor at the Yale Child Study Center, and Professor Emerita, Clinical Psychology, The City University of New York. A theoretician, clinician, teacher, and researcher, she has written about the development of parental reflective functioning, the implications of attachment for child and adult psychoanalytic psychotherapy, and for infant mental health practice. She is one of the founders and co-directors of Minding the Baby (R), an interdisciplinary reflective home visiting program for high-risk mothers, infants, and their families, at the Yale Child Study Center and School of Nursing. Dr. Slade is editor, with Jeremy Holmes, of the six volume set, Major Work on Attachment (SAGE Publications, 2013), with Elliot Jurist and Sharone Bergner, of Mind to Mind: Infant Research, Neuroscience, and Psychoanalysis (Other Press, 2008), and with Dennie Wolf, of Children at Play (Oxford University Press, 1994). She has also been in private practice for over thirty-five years, working with individuals of all ages.
Two extraordinary clinicians with decades of research and writing
on attachment worked with immense application and skill to distill
what is essential in attachment theory and brought it to
psychotherapeutic practice. The result is an exceptionally
comprehensive and profound work of lasting value for every
clinician - regardless of orientation. The book is a guide to
improving the practice of the most experienced therapists at the
same time as offering the friendliest and most accessible of
introduction to this complex field. It is a remarkable achievement
from two of the most sophisticated and respected authors on the
clinical application of attachment theory. It provides a vivid
picture of the process of bonding and lifelong transformation which
attachment theory inspired therapy can bring. The book is for
everyone who is serious about working psychotherapeutically and
will not be bettered as an introduction for many many years to
come
-- Peter Fonagy
Holmes and Slade have provided exactly what the mental health
professions have needed-a comprehensive examination of how
attachment theory informs psychotherapy that is entirely accessible
to beginner therapists, but also highly informative to seasoned
clinicians. This superb text deserves a place on the shelves of
every psychotherapist.
-- Geln O. Gabbard, MD
This book is a ticket to journey along with Jeremy Holmes and
Arietta Slade as they describe their sophisticated and creative
views on attachment theory, research and the co-created space of
the therapist-patient relationship. With the addition of evocative
and varied clinical vignettes it's as if one is being personally
invited into the consulting rooms of these two gifted clinicians to
hear how they use an attachment perspective to inform their work.
This book is indispensable to both the clinical apprentice and the
seasoned practitioner.
-- Miriam Steele
The authors tell us 'Despite exuberance of theory, once in the consulting room, psychotherapy is a practice in search of a theory.' But we have theory! (I for instance studied first cognitive-behavioural, then systemic, then psychoanalytic theory; all are useful, what more do you want?) Also, as an attachment researcher and writer, I thought I would know the field. But this book draws together the history and cutting edges of attachment in ways that give really fresh angles on clinical experience. Learning attachment interviewing and coding, 25 years ago, added a powerful layer to my listening to patients (and to myself on the couch). Reading this book I am again shown that attachment theory and findings illuminate every other kind of clinical theory we use, and everyday life for good measure.
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