Working With Attachment in Couples Therapy - A Four-Step Model for Clinical Practice

List of contents

The Four Step Model: Step 1: The Resurrection of Safety. Step 2: Pursuing the attachment wound: Excerpts from Jim Donovan and other senior authors. After Identifying the Wound: Starting the Healing. Step 3: Treating the wound and rekindling the intimacy: Introducing three longer therapies. The Middle Stages of the treatment: The Challenge. Step 4: the Later Stages of couple treatment: Long term personality development. Final words: For now.

About the author

Jim Donovan, PhD, is Associate Professor of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, Emeritus Director of Behavioural Health Training, Atrius Health, MA, and author of Short-Term Object Relations Couples Therapy: The Five-Step Model (Routledge, 2003).

Summary

Working with Attachment in Couples Therapy: A 4-step Model for Clinical Practice presents a series of in-depth case studies which illustrate the seeking of the primary wound for each participant as it unfolds session by session and traces improvement in each couple while exploring past injuries.

Product details

• Authors: James Donovan, Jim Donovan, Donovan Jim
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2019
• EAN: 9780367277741
• ISBN: 978-0-367-27774-1
• No. of pages: 176
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Health, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Couples & Family, Psychotherapy, Psychotherapy: couples and families, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis