Attachment and Intersubjectivity

This book involves:

• A didactic formulation of the basic principles of attachment theory as a psychoanalytic paradigm.
• Critical discussions of controversial issues in psychoanalysis (such as theories of intersubjectivity, thinking and motivation, the role of the historical reconstruction in psychoanalytic psychotherapy and the relation between attachment and sexuality), viewed from an attachment perspective.
• An exploration of the clinical implications of these concepts.

This text will be of interest to individual therapists as well as group analysts, couple therapists, family therapists and academics.

Dr. Nicola Diamond is a Senior Lecturer in Psychosocial Studies, University of East London, and teaches at the Tavistock Clinic. She is also a Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist with the British Association of Psychotherapists in private practice, and runs a clinic at The Helen Bamber Foundation; before this she worked as a Psychotherapist at the Women's Therapy Centre in London. She is the co-author of Attachment and Intersubjectivity and has published widely in the field.