Treating Attachment Disorders (eBook)

Karl Heinz Brisch, MD, is a child and adolescent psychiatrist and psychotherapist, as well as an adult psychiatrist and neurologist and a specialist in psychosomatic medicine; a training psychoanalyst at the Psychoanalytic Institute in Stuttgart, Germany; and head of the Department of Pediatric Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy at the Dr. von Hauner Children’s Hospital at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, Germany. Dr. Brisch’s primary research is on the development of infants and children with high-risk conditions and the development of attachment and its disorders. He has led longitudinal research projects on attachment disturbances and early psychotherapeutic interventions. He is a member of the World Association for Infant Mental Health and of the Society for Research in Child Development, and is president of the German branch of the German-Speaking Association for Infant Mental Health. His website is www.khbrisch.de/en.

Foreword, Lotte Köhler Introduction I. Attachment Theory and Its Basic Concepts II. Attachment Disorders III. Attachment-Based Psychotherapy IV. Treatment Cases from Clinical Practice V. Treatment of Early Childhood Developmental Disorders in an Inpatient Intensive Psychotherapy Unit: A New Model of Treatment VI. Prospects for Further Application Afterword, Inge Bretherton Appendix: Brief Précis of the Adult Attachment Interview Protocol