Attachment: New Directions in Psychotherapy and Relational Psychoanalysis is a leading-edge journal for clinicians working relationally with their clients. It is a professional journal, featuring cultural articles, politics, reviews and poetry relevant to attachment and relational issues; an inclusive journal welcoming contributions from clinicians of all orientations seeking to make a contribution to attachment approaches to clinical work; an international journal open to ideas and practices from all countries and cultures; and a cutting-edge journal with up-to-date briefings on latest developments in neuroscience relevant to psychotherapy and counselling. Articles - Teenage Killings: Loss, Trauma and Abandonment in the Histories of Young People in Trouble by Rachel Wingfield - Behind Closed Doors: Sexual Excitement as a Re-enactment of Trauma by Liat Levy - Erotic Gift-Giving from Client to Therapist in Relational Psychotherapy by Benjamin Marr - Response to Paper by Benjamin Marr on Erotic Gift-Giving in Relational Psychotherapy by Barry Christie - Applications of the Child Attachment Interview. A Practitioner–Researcher’s Experience of Working with the Measure of Attachment in Middle Childhood by Joanna North - Attachment to the Unborn Child and Parental Mental Representations of Pregnancy Following Perinatal Loss by Joann M. O’Leary and Clare Thorwick - ‘The Making of Her’: My Boarding School Experience by Mary Stack - ‘What Do You Think Is Going On Here? Is This Individual Therapy Or Couple Therapy?’ by Jenny Riddell

Attachment Theory is one of the most important theoretical developments in psychoanalysis to have emerged in the past half-century. It combines the rigorous scientific empiricism of ethology with the subjective insights of psychoanalysis, and has had an enormous impact in the fields of child development, social work, psychology, and psychiatry. This is the first known book to appear which brings together John Bowlby and post-Bowlbian research and shows how the findings of Attachment Theory can inform the practice of psychotherapy. It also provides fascinating insights into the history of the psychoanalytic movement and looks at the ways in which Attachment Theory can help in the understanding of society and its problems.

The ongoing growth of attachment research has given rise to new perspectives on classic theoretical questions as well as fruitful new debates. This unique book identifies nine central questions facing the field and invites leading authorities to address them in 46 succinct chapters. Multiple perspectives are presented on what constitutes an attachment relationship, the best ways to measure attachment security, how internal working models operate, the importance of early attachment relationships for later behavior, challenges in cross-cultural research, how attachment-based interventions work, and more. The concluding chapter by the editors delineates points of convergence and divergence among the contributions and distills important implications for future theory and research.

Attachment: New Directions in Psychotherapy and Relational Psychoanalysis is a leading-edge journal for clinicians working relationally with their clients. It is a professional journal, featuring cultural articles, politics, reviews and poetry relevant to attachment and relational issues; an inclusive journal welcoming contributions from clinicians of all orientations seeking to make a contribution to attachment approaches to clinical work; an international journal open to ideas and practices from all countries and cultures; and a cutting-edge journal with up-to-date briefings on latest developments in neuroscience relevant to psychotherapy and counselling. Articles - Losing One’s Memory – The Ultimate Terror How Can Psychotherapy Help? by Hazel Leventhal - From Mind to World, From Drive to Affectivity: A Phenomenological–Contextualist Psychoanalytic Perspective by Robert D. Stolorow - Wrenching Open the Doors of Perception by Dean Whittington - From Object Use to Subject Relatedness by Orit Badouk Epstein - Meeting Through Grace: Relational Body-Psychotherapy by Asaf Rolef Ben-Shahar and Grace MacDonald - The Other 8,600 Plus Hours – Everyday Societal Challenges of Living with Complex Dissociation by Melanie Goodwin

In this book, early childcare professionals will gain an understanding of the theories of attachment as well as the background and research of the prominent minds behind them. This book explains the core elements of each theorist’s work and the ways these elements impact and support interactions with babies, including the topics of bonding, feeding practices, separation anxiety, and stranger anxiety. Carol Garhart Mooney, also the author of the best-selling Theories of Childhood, has worked as a preschool teacher and college instructor of early childhood education for over thirty years.

Provides a comprehensive report on the mother-child bond and the emotional effects of and behavioral response to maternal deprivation.