Attachment and the Defence Against Intimacy by Linda Cundy

Attachment and the Defence Against Intimacy by Linda Cundy

This book combines attachment theory and research with clinical experience to provide practitioners with tools for engaging with individuals who are indifferent, avoidant, highly defensive, and who struggle to make and maintain intimate connections with others.

"These clinically rich and empathic studies of those depending on the cold comforts afforded by dismissing attachment to protect them against the fear of social engagement provide vivid insights into the predicament they face, especially when they find themselves on the threshold of therapyEngaging the reader with this often hard-to-reach group they offer a valuable theoretical and practical resource for those helping them come out of the cold."

Christopher Clulow, PhD, Senior Fellow, the Tavistock Institute of Medical Psychology, London.

"Although many people inflict horrific cruelty upon their partners, the vast majority cause pain as a result of emotional unavailability, fuelled by avoidant attachment structures. In this superb book, Linda Cundy provides us with four remarkable master classes in the understanding of this often invisible, yet devastating, form of interpersonal interaction. Drawing upon extensive clinical experience and empirical research, the authors offer us a truly comprehensive textbook which will enlighten all of our clinical practices."

Professor Brett Kahr, Senior Fellow at Tavistock Relationships, Tavistock Institute of Medical Psychology, London, Senior Clinical Research Fellow at the Centre for Child Mental Health, London, Consultant in Psychology at The Bowlby Centre, Trustee of the Freud Museum London

Linda Cundy is an attachment-based psychoanalytic psychotherapist and supervisor in private practice in North London. She is also an independent trainer and an author.

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ISBN 13	9781138330450
ISBN 10	1138330450
Title	Attachment and the Defence Against Intimacy
Author	Linda Cundy
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Taylor & Francis Ltd
Year published	2018-08-29
Number of pages	114
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