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Attachment in Psychotherapy By David J. Wallin ( The Guilford Press )
Release Date: 2007-03-06
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This eloquent book translates attachment theory and research into an innovative framework that grounds adult psychotherapy in the facts of childhood development. Advancing a model of treatment as transformation through relationship, the author integrates attachment theory with neuroscience, trauma studies, relational psychotherapy, and the psychology of mindfulness. Vivid case material illustrates how therapists can tailor interventions to fit the attachment needs of their patients, thus helping them to generate the internalized secure base for which their early relationships provided no foundation. Demonstrating the clinical uses of a focus on nonverbal interaction, the book describes powerful techniques for working with the emotional responses and bodily experiences of patient and therapist alike.
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Skillful integration
David Wallin presents a skillful integration of the road maps of attachment theory, intersubjectivity, neuroscience and mindfulness to help readers develop a Wise Understanding of the journey from a wounded "me" to a healthy "I" to experiencing an awareness beyond the personal self that we could call the realm of the Wise Self.
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You really should read this book if you're interested in contemporary attachment theory. ( kurtz27 )
I'm a doctoral student in clinical psych and I loved this book. While it somewhat deepened my depth of knowledge concerning attachment in psychotherapy, moreso it does an excellent job of showing how it directly relates to what you actually do in a session. It's coverage of and relavence to the current analytic climate (e.g. relational psychoanalysis/intersubjectivity theory) is excellent and supplemented by a thorough discussion of the current empirical evidence coming to our field via related fields (e.g. neuropsych research, cognitive science, etc.). I would recommend this book to any student as part of their graduate training in clinical psych or as an accompanying text to a graduate level psychodynamic or developmental course.
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Serious, thoughtful, and accessible ( nlip )
David Wallin's book is a scholarly integration of the newest research in neurobiology, attachment theory, and mindfulness practice. For therapists and patients, it provides an accessible approach using the best of current knowledge about what underlies the creation of inner well-being. Dr. Wallin describes in an authentic, and courageous, way how a therapist can recognize his or her impact in the therapeutic relationship and use that understanding to further the treatment process. What is distinctive here is the absolute focus on what will be beneficial to the patient. Using this focus as the guideline in the therapeutic relationship is what is healing: For the patient to be able to come to trust that the therapist will always act in the patient's best interest to the best of the therapist's ability.
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What makes us Human ( patshrink )
As a clinician I bought Dr. Wallin's book to deepen my understanding of attachment and its central role in what shapes us as human beings. I hoped that it would increase my effectiveness as a therapist. I was not disappointed. This book integrates attachment theory, the latest research on the workings of the brain with respect to attachment and self regulation, and perhaps most significantly of all includes the centrality of mindfulness not only as necessary for internal health and freedom, but in the therapeutic relationship as well. I was moved both professionally and personally by Dr. Wallin's ability to do all this and show us his humanity, his own struggle with being present in his work with his clients.
His book is a rich resource - Im on my second reading.. and recommend it both to professionals and to those readers interested in understanding attachment, the brain and mindfulness.
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Awesome and must have for professionals ( davi8951 )
Attachment in Psychotherapy
David Wallin has taken the wonderful, albeit, at times ponderous research of Bowlby, Ainsworth, Main and Fonagy and makes it palatable and useful in the practice of psychotherapy. Wallin connects the dots from childhood separation/distress on through the discomforts of adult behavior to patterns predicted to evolve in the children raised by attachment frustrated adults. He also brings a refreshing take on "mindfulness" and "presence" in the psychotherapeutic space, conducting one of the most helpful and lucid explanations I've ever seen on how meditation and a mindfulness based stance in counseling makes possible breakthrough experiences for both patient and practicitioner. Avoiding the mysticism sometimes clouding Buddhist psychology, Wallin takes only a few personal case examples from his Mill Valley, CA practice to make extrordinarily clear how mindfulness based psychotherapy provides a safe and encouraging arena in which adults may find the opportunity to experience the intimacy and solid ground that were lost to them since childhood. If you are practicing psychotherapy, get this book. Better yet, catch Wallin on the lecture circuit.
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