Attachment-Based Psychotherapy

Attachment-Based Psychotherapy: Helping Patients Develop Adaptive Capacities

by Costello, Peter C.

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"This book explores in detail how our early attachment experiences with a primary caregiver affect our development into adulthood. In particular, it explores how suboptimal attachment experiences can lead to psychopathology (especially depression, anxiety, and maladaptive anger) and difficulties in interpersonal relationships. Finally, it describes how psychotherapy can mitigate the detrimental effects of negative early attachment experiences"--Chapter. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2013 APA, a…

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  • Full title :Attachment-Based Psychotherapy : Helping Patients Develop Adaptive Capacities / Peter C. Costello.

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"This book explores in detail how our early attachment experiences with a primary caregiver affect our development into adulthood. In particular, it explores how suboptimal attachment experiences can lead to psychopathology (especially depression, anxiety, and maladaptive anger) and difficulties in interpersonal relationships. Finally, it describes how psychotherapy can mitigate the detrimental effects of negative early attachment experiences"--Chapter. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2013 APA, all rights reserved).

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2013.
  • Edition:1st ed

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The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (ix, 269 pages)

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9781433813030, 1433813033
  • DOI:10.1037/14185-000
  • oclc:ocn846691605
  • LC Classification:RC455.4.A84
  • Dewey Decimal:616.89/14

Table of 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.

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