secure attachment

Attachment Theory and the Psychotherapy Relationship

In 1988 John Bowlby published a groundbreaking collection of his lectures and essays. He inspired a generation of researchers by asserting that the therapist-client relationship has key features in common with parent-child attachments. Roughly coinciding with the 25th anniversary of Bowlby’s book, four meta-analyses have recently been published. These articles and other summaries take stock […]

Brent Mallinckrodt, Ph.D.

May 31, 2015