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The adult attachment projective picture system : attachment theory and assessment in adults / Carol George, Malcolm L. West.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- George, Carol.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Attachment behavior.
- Attachment disorder.
- Adulthood--Psychological aspects.
- Adulthood.
- Behavioral assessment.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (321 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Guilford Press, c2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book presents cutting-edge research on adult attachment together with a complete overview of the Adult Attachment Projective Picture System (AAP), the authors' validated developmental assessment. In addition to identifying attachment classification groups, the AAP yields important information about dimensions--including defensive processes--not evaluated by other available measures. Detailed case illustrations show what the AAP looks like ""in action"" and what it reveals about individuals' early experiences, sense of self, and capacity to engage in close, protective relatio
- Contents:
- Narrative versus non-narrative assessment of adult attachment
- Defining attachment stories as representational precipitates
- The development and validation of the AAP
- The attachment self: the AAP attachment content coding dimensions
- Defensive processes in the AAP
- Secure attachment
- Dismissing attachment
- Preoccupied attachment
- Dysregulated segregated systems: unresolved attachment, failed mourning, and preoccupation with suffering
- Using the AAP in neurobiology research.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-4625-0478-7
- 1-280-38954-0
- 9786613567468
- 1-4625-0426-4
- OCLC:
- 782879043
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