Attachment-Based Psychotherapy: Helping Patients Develop Adaptive Capacities
This moving, wise, beautifully written book enriches our literature and provides valuable guidelines that link theory and research findings to concrete clinical practice. It is a must-read for therapists from a wide range of orientations and opens up new possibilities and new directions for even the seasoned therapist. --Paul L. Wachtel, PhD, CUNY Distinguished Professor, Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology, City College of CUNYIn this essential volume, Costello provides both students and experienced psychotherapists a concise, yet comprehensive treatise on attachment theory, showing us how to enhance and deepen our understanding of dyadic relationships and their maladaptive pathologies. Regardless of one s favored approach, readers will deepen their appreciation of the enormous contribution John Bowlby and others have made to clinical science and psychotherapeutics, which is expertly presented and translated into practical strategies for dyadic restructuring that enhance adaptive capacities. --Jeffrey J. Magnavita, PhD, ABPP, private practice, Glastonbury, CT; Lecturer in Psychiatry, Yale University; Past President (2010), The Division of Psychotherapy of the American Psychological AssociationThis is an excellent book, and I highly recommend it. It is thoughtful, generally well written, capacious in its review of the attachment literature and yet clinical in its focus, and includes a number of substantial and well-developed case examples. It would be an excellent addition to the reading list for clinically oriented graduate students; as a teacher of undergraduates, I found myself scribbling notes to myself in the margins for use in courses on psychopathology and personality, and in a seminar for seniors engaged in clinical work in the community. --Joseph J. Guido, PsycCRITIQUESIn the first half the author focuses on describing attachment and attachment theory, and he does so exceptionally well. The book offers readers a deeper understanding of [attachment] theory, laying a foundation for conceptualizing an individual's suffering according to this framework. - --ChoiceThis book is a jewel. Seldom has the depth and richness of modern attachment theory and science been explored with such clarity and elegance. Clinicians will find it invaluable, giving them a new understanding of their clients' emotional lives and life problems. --Sue Johnson, Ph.D., author of Love Sense: The Revolutionary New Science of Romantic Relationships and Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Ottawa and Distinguished Research Professor at Alliant University in San Diego, California.This book is a jewel. Seldom has the depth and richness of modern attachment theory and science been explored with such clarity and elegance. Clinicians will find it invaluable, giving them a new understanding of their clients' emotional lives and life problems. --Sue Johnson, Ph.D., author of Love Sense: The Revolutionary New Science of Romantic Relationships and Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Ottawa and Distinguished Research Professor at Alliant University in San Diego, California.