Treating Attachment Pathology

Offering the first comprehensive paradigm on the psychoanalytic treatment of adult and adolescent attachment disorders Jon Mills argues that attachment pathology is a disorder of the self based on developmental trauma that predisposes patients toward a future trajectory marked by structural deficits character pathology and interpersonal discord that fuel and sustain myriad forms of clinical symptomatology. This pivotal work constitutes a treatise on the governing psychic processes of attachment on self-organization adaptation and conflicted intersubjective dynamics in non-childhood populations. Through conceptually astute technical strategies grounded in sold clinical practice the author offers one of the most extensive and original frameworks in the psychoanalytic treatment of attachment disorders.