Working with Attachment Trauma

Carol George, Ph.D., is an internationally renowned attachment expert and provides extensive teaching and consultation in the clinical application of attachment. Her books include the Adult Attachment Projective Picture System, Attachment Disorganization, and Disorganized Attachment and Caregiving. Julie Wargo Aikins, Ph.D., is an expert in developmental psychopathology and parent-child relationships and consults on the clinical application of attachment theory. She conducts research that includes various measures of attachment, writes and presents on attachment theory, and trains on the use of the Adult Attachment Projective Picture System. Melissa Lehmann, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist at the Center for Therapeutic Assessment. Her practice involves assessment and therapy with clients who have experienced attachment trauma, as well as providing consultation to other clinicians in this area.

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