Attachment and Dynamic Practice

Jerrold R. Brandell (Author) Jerrold Brandell is Distinguished Professor and Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs at the Wayne State University School of Social Work. Brandell is the author, coauthor, or editor/coeditor of thirteen books, including Narration and Therapeutic Action: The Construction of Meaning in Psychoanalytic Social Work (Routledge, 2017); Of Mice and Metaphors: Therapeutic Storytelling with Children, Second Edition (Sage Press, 2016), Essentials of Clinical Social Work (Sage, 2014); Theory and Practice in Clinical Social Work (Sage, 2011); Psychodynamic Social Work (Columbia University Press, 2004); Attachment and Dynamic Practice (Columbia University Press, 2007); Celluloid Couches, Cinematic Clients: Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in the Movies (SUNY Press, 2004); and Countertransference in Psychotherapy with Children and Adolescents (Jason Aronson, 1992). Shoshana Ringel (Author) Shoshana Ringel is associate professor at the University of Maryland School of Social Work. She is the coauthor of 'Advanced Social Work Practice' (CUP 2009) and 'Attachment Theory and Dynamic Practice' (CUP 2007).

• Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Beginnings: Early Conceptions of the Mother-Infant Relationship 2. Bowlby's Theory of Attachment 3. Contemporary Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Attachment 4. Research on Attachment 5. Children 6. Adolescents 7. Adults Notes References Index

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