Working with Attachment Trauma

This book introduces the AAP and illustrates the powerful potential for implementing the AAP in clinical practice for assessment, client conceptualization, treatment planning, analysis, and as a therapeutic guide.

Part I Foundations 1. The Adult Attachment Projective Picture System 2. Implications for Psychotherapy Processes and Outcomes 3. Clinical and Neurobiological Applications of the AAP in Adults and Children: Therapeutic Implications Part 2 Incomplete Pathological Mourning 4. Attachment Trauma and Incomplete Pathological Mourning 5. Failed Mourning: The Sounds of Silence 6. Opening the Attachment Trauma Floodgates: Preoccupation with Personal Suffering 7. Pain, Misery, and Suffering: Unresolved Attachment as a Predictor of Treatment in Male Combat-Related Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Part 3 Adult Psychotherapy and Assessment 8. From Unresolved to Earned Secure: The AAP as a Powerful Clinical Tool in Psychotherapy 9. Embodying Attachment: Language and Somatic Revelations 10. Using the Adult Attachment Projective Picture System in a Transdiagnostic Approach During Psychoanalytic Treatment: Therapy and Neurophysiological Outcomes 11. Confusion, Fear, and Loss: Clinical Application of the AAP with People with Intellectual Disabilities Part 4 Adolescents and Parents 12. Does Therapy Matter for Adolescents in the Foster Care System? 13. Using the Adult Attachment Projective Picture System in Pediatric Health Psychology: Parental Gatekeeping and Attachment Trauma in an Adolescent and his Donor Father14. Dismissive and Blind to Attachment Distress: The AAP Unravels a Diagnostic Puzzle 15. The Role of the Adult Attachment Projective Picture System in Treating Obesity 16. Attachment-informed Assessment of Adolescent Conduct Disorder: A Case Study