This book provides a major and much needed introduction to the nature and implications of attachment theory, and to the clinical as well as theoretical integration of that theory with psychoanalysis and psychodynamics. It is difficult to overstate the importance of the addition of attachment theory to the psychoanalytic armamentarium. As Phil Mollon states in his forward to this truly international elaboration of the work of John Bowlby and his followers:“-attachment theory and associated research have evolved to a point where an appreciation of their clinical implications can now be considered essential for the effective and responsible practice of the well-informed psychotherapist or psychoanalyst (xvii).”

In the spirit of such an appreciation, this book meets many unspoken needs of psychodynamically oriented therapists, and goes a long way