Attachment Centred Therapy: Therapeutic Practice With Attachment Issues (Palgrave Texts in Counselling and Psychotherapy)

To Charley: In memoriam
Acknowledgements
Contents
Chapter 1: Attachment Centred Therapy
	Attachment Centred Therapy: A Humanistic, Integrative Therapy Model
	Attachment Trauma
	Validity of ACT
		Observation
		Replication: Attachment Narrative Therapy
		Outcome
		Application
	The Core Beliefs: A Model for How We Meet Our Needs and Others’
Chapter 2: Maslow’s Modified Hierarchy
	Physical
	Nurtural
	Safety and Security
	Love and Belonging
	Esteem of Self and Others
	Self-actualization/Spiritual Awakening
	Self-transcendence
Chapter 3: The Dynamic Maturational Model of Attachment
	The Adult Attachment Interview
	Administer the Adult Attachment Interview
	Coding the Transcript
		Grice’s Maxims
			Relevance
			Manner
			Quantity
			Quality
			Summary
		Childhood History
		Dispositional Representations and Their Integration
			Implicit Memory
			Explicit Memory
			Reflective Integration
		Discourse Markers
	What If You Aren’t Trained?
Chapter 4: Working with the Transcript
	The Shock of Recognition
	Education
	The Long Kiss Goodnight
	The Dilapidated House
	A Year Later
	Rehan’s Lover
		Oh Shit! I’m Gonna Die Now!
		Learned Helplessness
Chapter 5: Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy
	The ABCs of Emotions
	Three Questions
	Two Tips to Training Thinking
		‘Shoulds’
			What to Do Instead?
		Hot Links
			Condemnation and Damnation
			I-Can’t-Stand-It-Itis
			Awfulizing
			Self-downing
			Always/Never
	The Zigzag
	The Four Stages of Learning
	Bob and the Shroud of Shame
		The Contract: REBT in Action
Chapter 6: Reprogramming the Unconscious Mind
	Affirmations
		The New Belief as Affirmation
			Why Some People Think They Don’t Work: The Barf Factor
			The Six Magic Words: ‘I Would Like to Believe That’
			Stop it! Cancel, Cancel! Affirmation!
	Breath Work: Pranayama
		Deep Breathing—the Deep Breath
		The Middle Breath
		The Upper Breath
		The Full Breath
	Meditation
	NLP, Hypnotherapy, and Time Line Therapy®
		Rapport
		Programming
		Visual Acuity
	Ericksonian Hypnotherapy
	Time Line Therapy®
		Adlerian Life Style Analysis
		Tina and the Tea Cup
		It Damn Works!
		The Lights Are Bright
		There Is a Principle
	Learning to Recognize Emotions
	Dream Work
		Using Dreams
		The Accountant and the Artist
Chapter 7: Reorganization
	AAI Processing—The Core
	Reconstructing History
	Identifying Discourse Markers
	ACEs: Adverse Childhood Experiences
	Dealing with Loss and Grief
	The Grieving Process
		Denial
		Anger
		Blaming and Bargaining
			The Spin Cycle
		Suffering of Sadness and Depression
		Acceptance
Chapter 8: Techniques for Working with Couples and Families
	Gottman and the Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work
		The Four Horsemen
		Turning Toward, Away, or Against
	Notarius and Markman and the Relationship Bank Account
		I Feel … When … Because …
		What I Heard You Say Is
			Listening
			Understanding
			Sharing
	Relationship Actualization
		Spiritual Attraction
		Goals and Values
		Feelings About Self and Other
		Commitment, Extending Yourself to Another
		Vulnerability and Acceptance
		Nurtural
		Living Together
		A Useful Guide
	Techniques for Working with Families
		Adlerian Family Therapy
		Addiction and Families
Chapter 9: Creating New Narratives
	Gregory’s Walking Holiday
	Andrea and the Men in Her Life
		Example of ‘A’ Type Emotional Information Deletion
		Andrea’s Progress in Recovery
			Self-hatred
	Rehan’s Return Engagement with Us
	Bob’s New Outlook on Life
Chapter 10: What Could Go Wrong?
	Honesty, or the Lack Thereof
		People Fool Themselves
	The Hidden Agenda
	Sociopathy/Psychopathy
	Going Too Fast
	Going Too Slow
	Provocative Partners
	Secondary Gain and No Desire to Change
	Masking Trauma, Loss, or Disability
	Defensiveness
Chapter 11: An Afterword and Acknowledgements
	Acknowledgements
Appendix A: Refinement and Extension
Appendix B: REBT Worksheet
Index