Using Psychoanalytic Techniques to Transform the Attachment Relationship to God

Our Refuge and Strength
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-91371-1
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 192 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 458 g

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 wholeness and unity—a crucial treatment goal of AIP.

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

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Professional Practice & Development, and Professional Reference

Autoren/Hrsg.

Goodman, Geoff

Fachgebiete

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

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Note on the Text

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

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, USA. He holds board certifications in clinical psychology and psychoanalysis from the American Board of Professional Psychology.