Cundy, Linda
Anxiously Attached: Understanding and Working with Preoccupied Attachment
- ISBN 13:
- 9781782205197
- author:
- Cundy, Linda
- format:
- Paperback / softback
- publisher:
- Karnac Books
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2017
- Pages:
- 98
- Dimensions:
- 22.9 x 15.2 centimetres (0.19 kg
- Genre:
- Nonfiction, Psychology, General
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
Anxiously Attached: Understanding and Working with Preoccupied Attachment by Linda Cundy Anxiously attached individuals often feel chronically insecure, leading to intense and enmeshed relationships. This can manifest in acute rumination following specific life events or as an extreme state of "borderline borderline" - a cycle of inescapable brooding, raging, and inability to separate. Working with these clients can be challenging, and therapies may feel stuck or end badly. This book presents four papers on anxious attachment, exploring its origins in parent-infant relationships, developmental aspects, and how it presents in psychotherapy. It also examines enmeshed dynamics in adult relationships, including the therapeutic relationship, where the threat of separation and loss activates intense attachment seeking. By increasing understanding of preoccupied clients from an attachment perspective, this book aims to help therapists recognise the nature of their anxieties and resistances, and propose specific skills for therapeutic work.
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