TY - BOOK AU - Heard,Dorothy AU - Lake,Brian AU - McCluskey,Una TI - Attachment Therapy with Adolescents and Adults: Theory and Practice post Bowlby SN - 9781849409704 PY - 2012/// CY - London PB - Karnac Books KW - Bowlby, John KW - Attachment behavior KW - Developmental psychology KW - Self-perception KW - Adulthood KW - Object Attachment KW - Self Concept KW - Psychotherapy KW - methods KW - Human Development KW - Adolescent KW - Adult N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-242) and index; 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 N2 - 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 UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?custid=ns123844&authtype=ip,shib&direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=442439 ER -