Product Description: This book is written primarily for psychotherapists and other practitioners; it describes a new and effective form of dynamic therapy designed for working with adults and with adolescents. The theory, on which the new form of therapy is based, is centred in a paradigm that extends and crucially alters the paradigm for developmental psychology opened by the Bowlby/Ainsworth attachment theory...read more

Product Description: In this classic work, now reissued, extensions of the Bowlby/Ainsworth attachment theory are described. It also discusses how human beings aspire to reach ideals or, not infrequently, defensive idealizations. The Challenge of Attachment for Caregiving proposes a model for the development of caregiving, and shows its relation to therapeutic practice while complementing and extending attachment theory...read more

An offbeat compilation of the strangest book titles, subtitles, author names, and book descriptions ever published ranges from such colorful works as Boobs as Seen by John Henry to Obesity--Causes, Consequences and Treatment by Louis Lasagna, complemented by some of the oddest book jackets ever produced. Original. 40,000 first printing.

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