We've gathered Psychotherapy Networkers most popular posts and arranged them here by topic.
Removing The Masks
Let’s Stop Wasting Time
Conventional therapeutic wisdom aside, people typically don’t hurt each other because they’re out of touch, unable to communicate, or can’t help themselves. All too frequently, they do hurtful things with impunity and entitlement simply to gratify their own needs.
The Adult Attachment Interview & How it Changed Attachment Research History
How the Adult Attachment Interview Became the 'Most Important Development in Attachment Research'
When attachment theory was blossoming, it didn’t provide an accompanying toolbox of tactics and techniques, though it did offer a new therapeutic attitude, justifying deep, soul-felt work, which offered a genuinely new beginning towards treatment for adult attachment disorder.
Using Corrective Experiences in Attachment-Based Therapy
Diane Poole Heller on Bringing the Concrete to the Abstract
One of the more unique challenges of working with clients who have attachment-based issues is the lack on concrete goals in their treatment.
Adult Attachment Disorder: 3 Detours to the Right Hemisphere
For Clients with Adult Attachment Disorder, Use the Left Hemisphere to Guide You to the Right
"People with avoidant attachment histories are too closed down to have access to experience their right-hemisphere processes," says Daniel Siegel, who's probably done as much as anybody in the field to induce therapists to clasp both attachment theory and neuroscience to their collective bosom.
Attachment Theory & Treatment: 4 Maxims for Therapeutic Change
Attachment-Oriented Therapists Live by Four Strategies for Working Through Attachment Theory and its Associated Disorders
Are there any downsides to basing clinical treatment on attachment theory? David Schnarch, a leading advocate of differentiation in the therapy process, believes that attachment theory keeps clients functioning as needy children.
Taking Off The Gloves
David Schnarch On How Confrontation Speeds Up Couples Therapy
Couples therapist, David Schnarch, is not interested in having a couple feel secure in the consulting room.
Finding the Missing Link to Chronic Pain
Maggie Phillips On The Levels Of Unreleased Trauma
Pain is usually associated with a currently existing physical injury, which makes helping clients who suffer from chronic pain especially challenging.
Becoming a Part of the Child Client’s Story
Dan Hughes on the Effectiveness of Psychological Hand-Holding
Daniel Hughes has many techniques to suggest when working with troubled children who have put up a wall.
How Attachment Issues Undermine True Intimacy
Sue Johnson On Identifying And Healing The Wounds Of Attachment
Attachment theory has profoundly altered our understanding of how early childhood injuries negatively affect clients throughout their lives. But the theory offers little guidance on how to recognize and address attachment issues underlying other problems.
