Attachment theory and The John Bowlby Memorial Lecture 2013 : a short history / Kate White -- Addiction: treatment and its context / Jason Wright -- The self-medication hypothesis and attachment theory : pathways for understanding and ameliorating addictive suffering / Edward J. Khantzian -- Alcohol misuse, attachment dilemmas, and triangles of interaction : a systemic approach to practice / Arlene Vetere -- Taking the toys away: removing the need for self-harming / Lynn Greenwood -- Using "intent" to remedy mal-attachment / Bob Johnson -- Struggling with abstinence / Richard Gill -- Technology, attachment, and sexual addiction / Cara Crossan -- Gambling addiction: seeking certainty when relationship is the risk / Liz Karter
Summary
This outstanding book is an important collection of papers from the 2013 John Bowlby Memorial Conference by eight accomplished clinicians from different modalities who share their experience of working with people with different kinds of addiction. The papers bring together an in-depth understanding that addictions are a response to, and hold the pain of, broken attachments and are best treated within healthy interpersonal relationships. For a long time the person with an addiction has been seen as the problem with society being able to live in denial of the causes. These papers open up innovative and effective ways of working with people troubled by addiction from an attachment-informed perspective
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Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index
