Seeing Through Tears: Crying and Attachment

by Nelson; Judith Kay

• ISBN13: 9780415949682
• ISBN10: 0415949688
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2005-02-23
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

It would be the rare human being who has not, at many times, both cried and acted as a shoulder for someone else's sorrows. However, few people encounter tears in a professional setting as often as psychotherapists, counselors, and others in the field of mental health.Crying, Caregiving and Connectionpresents a comprehensive treatment of crying forms and situations, from children to adults, client to therapist, in-session and out-of-session, while developing an attachment-based theory of crying as not driven simply by emotional needs, but by a fundamental desire for connection. Though written primarily for the mental health practitioner, the book would also be appropriate for many other health care professionals, educators, students, parents, and anyone interested in the topic of crying.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

A Theory of Crying

There is more to crying than meets the eye

The circle of tears: Attachment, loss, crying, caregiving and re- attachment

Protest, despair and detachment: A classification of crying

Crying at the source: The first twelve months

Crying is for broken legs and lost friends: Crying in childhood

Crying lessons and caregiving responses: The social view

The Clinical Assessment of Crying

Healthy adult crying and inhibited crying (and healthy adult caregiving)

Symptomatic adult crying and inhibited crying (and symptomaticadult caregiving)

Tears as body language

Crying and Inhibited Crying in the Therapeutic Relationship

Crying in the clinical hour

How therapists deal with crying and caregiving (including their own)

Attachment and Caregiving: Beyond the Personal

Transcendent Tears

Bibliography

Index

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