This post reviews what John Bowlby, the father of attachment theory, had to say about grief and loss. The implications of these ideas for clinical practice will be covered in the next post in this series on attachment, grief and … Continue reading
This post covers the relevance of attachment theory to clinical counselling practice. Attachment theory is the brain child of John Bowlby, a British psycho-analytically trained psychiatrist. Between 1969 and 1980 Bowlby published a three volume series on human behavior related … Continue reading
When clients have had insecure childhoods, healing and growth can be facilitated by thinking of therapy as a reparative attachment relationship in which the therapist deliberately tunes into the non-verbal interactive dynamics at play. The following post explores this idea. … Continue reading