Written with the practicing psychotherapist in mind, this invaluable book presents cutting-edge knowledge on adult attachment and explores the implications for day-to-day clinical practice. Leading experts illustrate how theory and research in this dynamic area can inform assessment, case formulation, and clinical decision making. The book puts such concepts as the secure base, mentalization, and attachment styles in a new light by focusing on their utility for understanding the therapeutic relationship and processes of change. It offers recommendations for incorporating attachment ideas and tools into specific treatment approaches, with separate chapters on psychoanalytic, interpersonal, cognitive-behavioral, and emotion-focused therapies. Critical Acclaim: "One does not often apply the term 'page turner' to a professional volume, but I literally couldn't put this book down. Every chapter includes explicit, practical, and thoughtful strategies for formulating and intervening from an attachment framework. I've already been thinking about how to incorporate these ideas into my teaching and clinical work!"?Hanna Levenson, PhD, private practice, San Francisco, and Professor, Wright Institute, Berkeley, California "This comprehensive volume stands as the state-of-the-art guide to the clinical applications of attachment theory. Psychologists and other mental health professionals practicing assessment, evaluation, and the full range of contemporary approaches to psychotherapy will repeatedly turn to this well-organized work. Obegi and Berant have brought together the leading experts in each area of practice and scholarship. At a time when psychotherapists are concerned to establish meaningful links with empirical research, this impressive book is especially necessary."?Lewis Aron, PhD, Director, Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, New York University "This book opens up the 'black box' of attachment study for practicing clinicians of all stripes. Grounded in cutting-edge research, and rich in clinical material, the volume both anchors the reader in the core elements of attachment theory and research and brings alive the multiple and diverse implications of this work for the therapeutic enterprise."?Arietta Slade, PhD, Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology, City University of New York Contents: 1. Introduction, Joseph H. Obegi and Ety Berant
I. Theoretical Foundations
2. An Overview of Adult Attachment Theory, Phillip R. Shaver and Mario Mikulincer
3. The Therapist as Secure Base, Barry A. Farber and Jesse A. Metzger
4. Attachment, Mentalization, and Reflective Functioning, Elliot L. Jurist and Kevin B. Meehan
5. Clinical Correlates of Adult Attachment Organization, Frederick G. Lopez
II. Assessing Attachment
6. Using Interviews to Assess Adult Attachment, Kenneth N. Levy and Kristen M. Kelly
7. Self-Report Measures of Adult Attachment in Clinical Practice, R. Chris Fraley and Robert L. Phillips
8. Attachment Styles, the Rorschach, and the Thematic Apperception Test: Using Traditional Projective Measures to Assess Aspects of Attachment, Ety Berant
III. Clinical Utility
9. Internal Working Models and Change, Rebecca J. Cobb and Joanne Davila
10. An Attachment Approach to Adult Psychotherapy, Brent Mallinckrodt, Katherine Daly, and Chia-Chih D.C. Wang
11.Transference and Attachment, Rami Tolmacz
12. Attachment-Related Defensive Processes, Mario Mikulincer, Phillip R. Shaver, Jude Cassidy, and Ety Berant
13. An Attachment Perspective on Crying in Therapy, Judith Kay Nelson
IV. Integration with Clinical Approaches
14. Adult Psychotherapy from the Perspectives of Attachment Theory and Psychoanalysis, Morris Eagle and David L. Wolitzky
15. An Interpersonal Approach to Attachment and Change, Paul Florsheim and Laura McArthur
16. Attachment Theory and Emotionally Focused Therapy: Perfect Partners, Susan M. Johnson
17. Attachment Theory and Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy, Carolina McBride and Leslie Atkinson
V. Future Directions
18. Attachment-Informed Psychotherapy Research with Adults: Current Status and Future Directions, Ety Berant and Joseph H. Obegi
19. Getting It Together: From Attachment Research to Clinical Practice, Jeremy Holmes Contributors: Leslie Atkinson, PhD,Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Ety Berant, PhD,Department of Psychology, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel
Jude Cassidy, PhD,Department of Psychology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland
Rebecca J. Cobb, PhD,Department of Psychology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
Katherine Daly, PhD,Department of Psychology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
Joanne Davila, PhD,Department of Psychology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York
Morris Eagle, PhD,Dernier Institute of Advanced Psychological Studies, Adelphi University, Garden City, New York
Barry A. Farber, PhD,Counseling and Clinical Psychology, Columbia University Teachers College, New York, New York
Paul Florsheim, PhD,Department of Psychology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah
R. Chris Fraley, PhD,Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois
Susan M. Johnson, PhD,Ottawa Couple and Family Institute, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada
Elliot L. Jurist, PhD,Graduate School and University Center, City University of New York, New York, New York
Jeremy Holmes, MD, FRCPsych,University of Exeter, Exeter, Devon, United Kingdom
Kristen M. Kelly, PhD,Department of Psychology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania
Kenneth N. Levy, PhD,Department of Psychology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania
Frederick G. Lopez, PhD,Counseling Psychology Program, University of Houston, Houston, Texas
Brent Mallinckrodt, PhD,Department of Psychology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee
Laura McArthur, MS,Department of Psychology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah
Carolina McBride, PhD,Center for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Canada
Kevin B. Meehan, PhD,Department of Psychiatry, St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center, New York, New York
Jesse A. Metzger, MS, Counseling and Clinical Psychology, Columbia University Teachers College, New York, New York
Mario Mikulincer, PhD,School of Psychology, Interdisciplinary Center (IDC), Herzliya, Israel
Judith Kay Nelson, PhD,The Sanville Institute, Berkeley, California
Robert L.Phillips, MA, LPC, Connection Clinic, Portland, Oregon
Joseph H. Obegi, PsyD,California School of Professional Psychology, Alliant International University, San Diego, California
Phillip R. Shaver, PhD,Department of Psychology, University of California, and International Association for Relationship Research, Davis, California
Rami Tolmacz, PhD,Department of Psychology, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel
Chia-Chih D.C. Wang, PhD,Department of Counseling and Educational Psychology, Kansas City, Missouri
David L. Wolitzky, PhD,Department of Psychology, New York University, New York, New York Editors: Joseph H. Obegi, PsyD,California School of Professional Psychology, Alliant University, San Diego, CA, and Ety Berant, PhD, Department of Psychology, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel |
