Includes bibliographical references (p. 339-354) and index.

Attachment and change -- The foundations of attachment theory -- Mary Main : mental representations, metacognition, and the adult attachment interview -- Fonagy and forward -- The multiple dimensions of the self -- The varieties of attachment experience -- How attachment relationships shape the self -- Nonverbal experience and the "unthought known" : accessing the emotional core of the self -- The stance of the self toward experience : embeddedness, mentalizing, and mindfulness -- Deepening the clinical dimension of attachment theory : intersubjectivity and the relational perspective -- Constructing the developmental crucible -- The dismissing patient : from isolation to intimacy -- The preoccupied patient : making room for a mind of one's own -- The unresolved patient : healing the wounds of trauma and loss -- The nonverbal realm I : working with the evoked and the enacted -- The nonverbal realm II : working with the body -- Mentalizing and mindfulness : the double helix of psychological liberation.

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