Beyond Secure Attachment Psychotherapeutic Applications of Attachment Theory from a Christian Perspective

includes index and biblioraphy

1. Attachment Theory: Origins and Orientations 23 Background and Origin 24 Attachment Theory: Key Assumptions 39 Attachment Theory: An Evaluation 95 2. Secure Attachment in the Therapeutic Context 119 Secure Attachment and Self-regulation 119 Attachment and Self-disorganisation 144 Recovering the Attachment Security 158 Secure Attachment in Therapy 179 3. Authentic Self-Transcendence in the Therapeutic Setting 223 Influences on Imoda 224 Self and Self-transcendence 229 Development of the Self and the Three Parameters 238 Self-transcendence in Psychotherapy 264 4. Authentic Self-transcendence through Secure Attachment 314 Two Constructs in Dialogue 314 Attachment and the Act of Transcendence 316 Authentic Self-transcendence in the Therapeutic Setting 326 Secure Attachment as a Mediation 333