1st Edition

Shattered States Disorganised Attachment and its Repair

Edited By Judy Yellin, Kate White Copyright 2012
    238 Pages
    by Routledge

    238 Pages
    by Routledge

    This book is an outcome of the fourteenth John Bowlby Memorial Conference held in London. The conference covers the theme of understanding and treatment of the extreme state experienced in psychosis and major dissociative disorders by clients who have not benefited from psychoanalytic psychotherapy.

    Introduction -- Attachment theory and The John Bowlby Memorial Lecture 2007: a short history -- The infanticidal origins of psychosis: the role of trauma in schizophrenia -- Disorganized attachment and the therapeutic relationship with people in shattered states -- Shattered shame states and their repair -- “You can kill me with what you say”: working with shattered states and the breakdown of inner and outer, self and other, from an attachment-based perspective -- Reading list -- Background information about The Bowlby Centre

    Biography

    Judy Yellin, Kate White