Attachment in Psychotherapy | David J. Wallin | Making therapy more human and vulnerable.

Attachment in Psychotherapy | David J. Wallin | relevant , insightful and timely

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	Attachment in Psychotherapy David J. Wallin The Guilford Press, 2007 - 366 pages average customer review:based on 20 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Making therapy more human and vulnerable.

David Wallin has performed a great service for psychotherapists in his book. With insight and academic excellence he has filled in many of the blanks about how attachment theory applies in psychotherapy and how it can be applied within the therapeutic session. He explains the types of attachment clearly while giving directions on how to work with each type in therapy. His examples from his own work with clients gives the reader concrete understanding of the applications and implications of this work. In particular, Dr. Wallin clearly describes the interrelations and interconnectedness of therapist and client. He explains how this relationship can be the core of effective therapy as well as how to access the conscious and unconscious cues and understandings which make one a more effective helper. This is the story of how the therapist can deepen and use his or her sensitive understandings in a compassionate and effective manner for the client. I highly recommend this book for any therapist who wishes to be more effective in assisting clients to become personally empowered. The client learns how to create more internal, emotional space in order to use thoughts and feelings to create an effective and compassionate life.

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relevant , insightful and timely

This is an extraordinary book, both in terms of its content and the form in which that content is delivered. It is the most readable, clear, and accessible account I know of concerning the relationship between childhood development and the psychological development in adulthood that therapy aims to encourage. In making bridges between the original attachment relationships in childhood and the new attachment in psychotherapy, the Dr. Wallin brings in studies of neuroscience, trauma, and mindfulness. In so doing he clarifies how therapy actually works. I believe this is a book of enormous value for therapists, and those working in psychodynamic fields such as counsellors and staff development speicialists. Wallin discusses his work with patients in a self-revealing and thoughtful way that gives a sense of the complexity and challenge of the work of a therapist. Highly recommended.

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Insightful, Important and Well written

Dr. Wallin offers us an insightful perspective into how to use attachment theory in psychotherapy in order to move our clients into awareness. His use of theory, practice and mindfulness techniques is refreshing, inspiring and opened my mind to new and wonderful avenues to explore with my clients. Thank you Dr. Wallin!

Innovation in Psychotherapeutic Technique: An Integration

In his new book, David Wallin displays an extraordinarily versatile command of information derived from a wide variety of disciplines which are interimplicated in his integrative work on contemporary psychotherapeutic theory and technique.Dr. Wallin's articulate description of the attachment theory tradition, followed by his skillful elaboration of the impact of specific kinds of early attachment interactions on the development of the experience of self, set up his clear analysis of the clinical ramifications of what the therapist is likely to encounter while working. His emphasis on the co-construction of experience in the therapeutic encounter and the centrality of nonverbal communication, as well as, his thoughts about how to work with these clinical phenomena make this theoretically eloquent book also very practical.As David Wallin demonstrates with his many poignant vignettes, when the going gets rough, the respectful tentativeness with which he attempts to offer a different experience to people who have had their ability to trust and hope shredded is moving. The academic rigor, coupled with the warmth and contactfulness which his work conveys, is impressive.

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Reality Trumps Fantasy

For psychotherapists, like myself, who are persuaded that the reality of the of the actual forms of attachment that infants and toddlers have to their caregivers trumps psychoanalystic notions (e.g. Melanie Klein) that the child's internal fantasies are more determinative of healthy or pathological development, David Wallin's book will be a welcome tonic. He has engagingly described three paradigmatic deformations of attachment that lead to three kinds of character impairment -- the Dismissing Patient, the Preoccupied Patient and the Unresolved Patient, and provides stimulating vignettes from his practice to indicate the nature of what is wounded and damaged in each, followed by various kinds of interpretive diaglogues, and "ways of being" of the therapist that tend to foster constructive personality change. Finally, he is one of a growing number of psychotherapists to incorporate Buddhist teachings (particularly the use of mindfulness meditation) into his clinical practice with what appears to be encouraging results. His book is eminently readable and even when I disagreed with some of Dr. Wallin's ideas, they were always thought-provoking, and in the service of a more enlightened and effective psychotherapy.

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