Patterns of relating an adult attachment perspective

Synopsis

This volume describes the characteristics and role of attachment in the adult years and provides a new perspective for understanding, studying, and changing an adult's ability to form life-sustaining personal relationships. Providing a powerful tool for both social research and therapeutic intervention, the authors define attachment for adults, present their own original research and clinical evidence to support their definition, explicate the varieties of adult attachment patterns, and demonstrate the clinical relevance of these constructs.