| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 256 pages, 2 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-250) and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Summary |
This book is written primarily for psychotherapists and other practitioners; it 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 seven pre-p. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Attachment behavior.
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Attachment behavior. |
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Developmental psychology.
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Developmental psychology. |
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Object Attachment. |
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Human Development. |
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Psychotherapy -- methods. |
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Self Concept. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Lake, Brian, 1922-2007.
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McCluskey, Una, 1949-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Heard, Dorothy, 1916- Attachment therapy with adolescents and adults. London : Karnac Books, 2009 9781855755222 (DLC) 2010501871 (OCoLC)466359007 |
| ISBN |
9781849408424 (electronic book) |
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1849408424 (electronic book) |
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9781855755222 |
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185575522X |
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