Patterns of Relating: An Adult Attachment Perspective

ISBN-13: 9780898626711 / Angielski / Twarda / 1994 / 210 str.

Malcolm L. West; Adrienne E. Sheldon-Keller; Adrienne E. Keller

Opis

This volume describes the characteristics and role of attachment in the adult years and provides a new perspective for understanding, studying, and changing an adult's ability to form life-sustaining personal relationships. Providing a powerful tool for both social research and therapeutic intervention, the authors define attachment for adults, present their own original research and clinical evidence to support their definition, explicate the varieties of adult attachment patterns, and demonstrate the clinical relevance of these constructs.

Recenzje

This is a first rate addition to the rapidly growing literature on attachment in adult life. The authors anchor their concept of reciprocal attachment firmly in established theory then move it boldly forward with solid empirical and clinical investigations. Well referenced and highly readable. --K.S. Adam, M.D., McMaster University

Adult attachment has become one of the more important areas of research and theory in psychology. It promises to be a significant point of intersection between clinical and research approaches and interests. West and Keller's book comes along at a most auspicious time. Bowlby believes that attachment is a central concern throughout one's life; West and Keller elucidate and develop Bowlby's claim in a fruitful and important direction. This book will be of great interest to anyone concerned with the very human need for significant attachments. --Morris Eagle, Ph.D., University of Toronto

The authors have skillfully tackled the problem of defining and assessing adult attachment. Their approach is well grounded in the developmental attachment literature....A very original and creative extension of attachment theory to adult clinical populations. --Roger Kobak, Ph.D., University of Delaware

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Highly recommended. Undergraduate through professional.

--Choice, 04/10/1994ƒƒ

...an introduction to adult attachment theory, this volume offers a tool for both social research and therapeutic intervention.

--Child and Family Behavior Therapy, 04/10/1994

Spis treści

Introduction. The Definition of Adult Reciprocal Attachment. The Relevance of Adult Reciprocal Attachment. Developmental Perspectives. Working Models. Patterns of Insecure Attachment. Defensive Processes in Attachment Theory. The Measurement of Adult Attachment. Personality Disorders Research. Attachment and Psychotherapy. The Boundaries of Adult Reciprocal Attachment. References.

O autorze

Malcolm L. West, PhD, until his death in 2020, was retired Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Calgary in Alberta, Canada. Dr. West worked as a clinician and researcher throughout his career. His research used attachment theory in clinical research, including studies of cardiac rehabilitation patients, depression in women, and suicidal behavior in adolescents. In addition to the Adult Attachment Projective Picture System, Dr. Westdeveloped self-report assessments of attachment in adults and adolescents.

Adrienne E. Sheldon-Keller, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Virginia.