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Attachment, Intimacy, Autonomy: Using Attachment Theory in Adult Psychotherapy
Author(s): Jeremy Holmes (Author)
- Publisher: Jason Aronson, Inc.
- Publication Date: 1 Dec. 1996
- Language: English
- Print length: 264 pages
- ISBN-10: 1568218729
- ISBN-13: 9781568218724
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Editorial Reviews
Review
Holmes not only gives clinicians a fundamental understanding of attachment theory but demonstrates its applicability to everyday practice concerns. By describing the characteristics of avoidant and ambivalent attachment, he helps therapists understand more fully the difficulties that patients have in achieving, maintaining, and thriving within a secure base. — Karen B. Walant
Attachment theory has finally come into its own in the clinical setting. The conceptual framework provided by Bowlby, Ainsworth, and their successors has wide psychotherapeutic applications that are brilliantly described in this impressive work by Jeremy Holmes. Much that is chaotic in the clinical setting becomes clear and understandable when the principles of attachment theory are brought to bear. To the reader”s great good fortune, Holmes”s prose style is a model of clarity so that abstruse concepts are effortlessly grasped by the reader and the author”s humanity shines through. — Glen O. Gabbard
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