Adult Attachment and Couple Psychotherapy: The 'Secure Base' in Practice and Research

by Clulow,Christopher

• ISBN13: 9780415224161
• ISBN10: 0415224160
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2000-12-15
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Attachment theory has triggered an explosion of research into family relationships, and provided a conceptual basis for the work of practitioners. Adult Attachment and Couple Psychotherapy brings research and practice perspectives to bear on the adult couple relationship, and provides a framework for assessing and working with secure and insecure partnerships. Divided into three parts, the book: Looks at what is meant by secure and insecure attachment in the couple; Describes how theory and research have been applied to practice, and how practice has added to the understanding of the complex problems that couples bring to therapy; Examines the significance of training and the organization of work for effective practice with couples. Using vivid illustrations from clinical and community work, Adult Attachment and Couple Psychotherapy offers stimulating reading for all those involved in this field who wish to re-assess their models of practice.

Table of Contents

Notes on the contributors	ix
Foreword	xiii
Jeremy Holmes
Acknowledgements	xxi
List of abbreviations	xxiii
Introduction	1	(12)
Christopher Clulow
PART I Conceptualising the couple in attachment terms	13	(70)
Patterns of relating in the couple	15	(13)
James Fisher
Lisa Crandell
Attachment security in adult partnerships	28	(15)
Judith Crowell
Dominique Treboux
Insecure attachment and abusive intimate relationships	43	(19)
Kim Bartholomew
Antonia Henderson
Donald Dutton
A couple perspective on the transmission of attachment patterns	62	(21)
Philip Cowan
Carolyn Pape Cowan
PART II Applications to couple psychotherapy	83	(88)
Attachment theory and the therapeutic frame	85	(20)
Christopher Clulow
Working with intangible loss	105	(14)
Christopher Clulow
Jenny Riddell
Avi Shmueli
Clinical reflections on unresolved and unclassifiable states of mind	119	(14)
Christopher Vincent
Attachment, narcissism and the violent couple	133	(19)
Christopher Clulow
Traumatic loss and the couple	152	(19)
Lynne Cudmore
Dorothy Judd
PART III A secure base for practice	171	(31)
Training partnerships: safe haven or secure base?	173	(12)
Felicia Olney
Security and creativity at work	185	(9)
Anton Obholzer
The sense of connection	194	(8)
Christopher Clulow
Appendix 1	202	(6)
Appendix 2	208	(1)
Bibliography	209	(13)
Index	222