Attachment-based psychotherapy : helping patients develop adaptive capacities / Peter C. Costello.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Costello, Peter C.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Attachment behavior.

Psychotherapy.

Object Attachment.

Interpersonal Relations.

Psychotherapy--methods.

Medical Subjects:

Object Attachment.

Interpersonal Relations.

Psychotherapy--methods.

Physical Description:

ix, 269 pages ; 26 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : American Psychological Association, [2013]

Summary:

"Our early attachment experiences with our primary caregiver influence the adult that we become. These experiences forge our patterns of communication, emotional experience, intimate relationships, and way of living in the world. If our early attachments are secure, we learn to access and communicate adaptive feelings, thoughts, and behaviors. In contrast, if our early attachment experiences are insecure, we may struggle with dysregulated, maladaptive emotions and have difficulties in our intimate relationships--leading to anxiety, depression, and excessive or misdirected anger. This book presents an attachment-based approach to therapy that addresses the limiting and detrimental effects of negative early attachment experiences. Attachment-based psychotherapy has two major components: establishing a security-engendering therapeutic relationship and helping the patient to communicate more openly and thus to access more adaptive feelings, thoughts, and behaviors." -- Publisher's description.

Contents:

ch. 1. Attachment, communication, and affect : an introduction

Part I. An attachment-based view of development

ch. 2. Why mother matter : the evolution of maternal care

ch. 3. The neural sculpting

ch. 4. Attachment

ch. 5. Communication

ch. 6. Affect

Part II. Attachment-based psychotherapy

ch. 7. Defensive exclusion and the focus of attachment-based therapy

ch. 8. Anxiety, depression, and maladaptive anger

ch. 9. The security-engendering therapeutic relationship

ch. 10. Deconstructing aloness : helping the patient access and communicate excluded thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-257) and index.

ISBN:

1433813025

9781433813023

OCLC:

822229881

Publisher Number:

99959712554