1st Edition

Anxiously Attached Understanding and Working with Preoccupied Attachment

By Linda Cundy Copyright 2017
116 Pages
by Routledge

116 Pages
by Routledge

116 Pages
by Routledge

Anxiously attached individuals feel chronically insecure and their relationships are often intense, angry, and enmeshed. In the spectrum of anxious attachment, some people tip into states of acute rumination following specific life events, while an extreme manifestation may be thought of as "borderline borderline" - inescapable brooding, raging, and inability to separate. Preoccupied clients... Read more
Introduction , Fear of abandonment and angry protest: understanding and working with anxiously attached clients , Softening a mother's need to reject her baby's urgent attachment cries for help , The Adult Attachment Interview: information processing and the distinguishing features of preoccupied attachment Or What has attachment theory ever done for us? , Don't ever threaten to leave me—and if I threaten, you'd better not believe it

Biography

Linda Cundy