Working with Attachment Trauma : Clinical Application of the Adult Attachment Projective Picture System

The Adult Attachment Projective Picture System (AAP) has served as a prominent assessment tool for adults and adolescents internationally for over 20 years. This book introduces the AAP and illustrates the powerful potential for implementing the AAP in clinical practice for assessment, client conceptualization, treatment planning, analysis, and as a therapeutic guide. Chapters discuss the full scope of incomplete pathological mourning for attachment trauma, including for the first time in the field Failure to Mourn and Preoccupation with Personal Suffering. Seasoned clinical researchers and psychotherapists provide a snapshot of their clients' unique attachment characteristics and defensive exclusion strategies as assessed by the AAP, and discuss how to use this information in treatment, as well as how to present the AAP results to their clients. This book introduces readers to how the AAP can be used with adolescents, adults, and couples, and in custody evaluation and foster care. This book introduces the AAP and illustrates the powerful potential for implementing the AAP in clinical practice for assessment, client conceptualization, treatment planning, analysis, and as a therapeutic guide. Cover 1 Half Title 4 Title Page 6 Copyright Page 7 Dedication 8 Table of Contents 10 About the Editors 14 List of Contributors 16 Preface 22 Part 1 Foundations 26 1 The Adult Attachment Projective Picture System: Assessing Attachment in Adults and Adolescents 28 2 Implications of the AAP for Psychotherapy Processes and Outcomes 46 3 Clinical and Neurobiological Applications of the AAP in Adults and Adolescents: Therapeutic Implications 58 Part 2 Incomplete Pathological Mourning 70 4 Attachment Trauma and Incomplete Pathological Mourning 72 5 Failed Mourning: The Sounds of Silence 82 6 Opening the Attachment Trauma Floodgates: Preoccupation with Personal Suffering 96 7 Pain, Misery, and Suffering: Unresolved Attachment as a Predictor of Treatment Outcome in Male Combat-Related Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder 107 Part 3 Adult Psychotherapy and Assessment 120 8 From Unresolved to Earned Secure Attachment: The AAP as a Powerful Clinical Tool in Psychotherapy 122 9 Embodying Attachment: Language and Somatic Revelations 135 10 Using the Adult Attachment Projective Picture System in a Transdiagnostic Approach During Psychoanalytic Treatment: Therapy and Neurophysiological Outcomes 148 11 Confusion, Fear, and Loss: Clinical Applications of the AAP with People with Intellectual Disabilities 160 Part 4 Adolescents and Parents 176 12 Does Therapy Matter for Adolescents in the Foster Care System? 178 13 Using the Adult Attachment Projective Picture System in Pediatric Health Psychology: Parental Gatekeeping and Attachment Trauma in an Adolescent and his Donor Father 191 14 Dismissive and Blind to Attachment Distress: The AAP Unravels a Diagnostic Puzzle 204 15 The Role of the Adult Attachment Projective Picture System in Treating Childhood Obesity 216 16 Attachment-Informed Assessment of Adolescent Conduct Disorder: A Case Study 229 Index 244 Trauma;,Attachment;,Psychotherapy;,Pathological,Mourning;,Mental,Disorders;,Health,Psychology;,AAP Trauma,Attachment,Psychotherapy,Pathological Mourning,Mental Disorders,Health Psychology,AAP