Psychoanalysis, Attachment and the Relationship with God (2 Volume Set)

Using Psychoanalytic Techniques to Transform the Attachment Relationship to God and Practical Applications of Transforming the Attachment Relationship to God
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-041-01930-5
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 414 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 770 g

This set includes both Using Psychoanalytic Techniques to Transform the Attachment Relationship to God and Practical Applications of Transforming the Attachment Relationship to God.

Using Psychoanalytic Techniques to Transform the Attachment Relationship to God demonstrates how clinicians can use Attachment-Informed Psychotherapy (AIP) to enhance clients’ understanding of their relationship to God and significant others. Geoff Goodman discusses four distinct attachment relationships to the God of personal spiritual experience and explains the implications for working with clients in psychotherapy. By asking how therapists can work through clients’ attachment relationship to God as a displacement of their attachment relationships to parents, and how therapists can work through clients’ attachment relationships to parents as a displacement of their attachment relationship to God, this book provides unique insight into the therapeutic process. Goodman’s objective is to enable clinicians to transform these attachment relationships, restoring and unity – a crucial treatment goal of AIP.

Practical Applications of Transforming the Attachment Relationship to God discusses four distinct attachment relationships to the God of personal spiritual experience and considers how each of these relationships has implications for working with clients in psychotherapy. Geoff Goodman uses Attachment-Informed Psychotherapy (AIP) to explore the connection between a relationship to God and a relationship to caregivers during childhood. By analyzing the attachment relationships evident in the lives of four public figures - human rights activist Coretta Scott King, Jewish Holocaust victim Anne Frank, Alcoholics Anonymous co-founder Bill W., and founder of psychoanalysis Sigmund Freud - this book demonstrates how their attachment relationships with their caregivers during childhood helped to determine the quality of their attachment relationship (or non-relationship) to God. Goodman demonstrates how to use AIP to work with these attachment relationships, formulating a psychotherapeutic treatment plan for each one with a goal of restoring wholeness and unity.

These books will be a valuable resource for psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, marriage and family therapists, and pastoral counsellors in practice and in training.

Zielgruppe

General, Postgraduate, Professional Practice & Development, Professional Reference, and Professional Training

Autoren/Hrsg.

Goodman, Geoff

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Psychoanalyse (S. Freud)
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Sozialpsychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1. Introduction

Section I. Attachment Theory and Attachment to God

Chapter 2. Getting Attached to Attachment Theory: A Brief Overview

Chapter 3. Attachment to God: Four Attachment Relationship Patterns

Section II. Applying Attachment-Informed Psychotherapy to Transform the Attachment Relationship to God

Chapter 4. Attachment-Informed Psychotherapy: Addressing Attachment to God Through the Therapeutic Relationship

Chapter 5. The Therapist’s Secure Base Provision and the Patient’s Underlying Attachment Needs

Chapter 6. Interaction Structures Formed by Therapist and Patient Secondary Attachment Strategies

Chapter 7. Final Thoughts on Transforming Attachment Relationships to God

Author Index

Subject Index

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1. Introduction

Section I. Using Autobiographies to Illustrate Attachment to God: Three Attachment Relationship Patterns

Chapter 2. Coretta Scott King: Secure Attachment to the Living God

Chapter 3. Anne Frank: Anxious-Resistant Attachment—Higher Power

as Compensation

Chapter 4. Bill W.: Anxious-Avoidant Attachment—Higher Power

as Compensation

Chapter 5. Sigmund Freud: Anxious-Avoidant Attachment—in Denial About the Possibility of a Higher Power

Section II. A Clinical Application of Attachment-Informed Psychotherapy

Chapter 6. A Yogi in Attachment-Informed Psychotherapy: A Spiritually Informed Case Conceptualization

Chapter 7. What I Have Personally Learned from Writing this Book

Author Index

Subject Index

Über Autor(innen)

Geoff Goodman is Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences in the Emory University School of Medicine and Associate Professor of Psychology and Spiritual Care in the Emory University Candler School of Theology in Atlanta, Georgia. He holds board certifications in clinical psychology and psychoanalysis by the American Board of Professional Psychology.