Attachment Volume 2 Number 3

Book excerpt: Attachment: New Directions in Psychotherapy and Relational Psychoanalysis is a leading-edge journal for clinicians working relationally with their clients. It is a professional journal, featuring cultural articles, politics, reviews and poetry relevant to attachment and relational issues; an inclusive journal welcoming contributions from clinicians of all orientations seeking to make a contribution to attachment approaches to clinical work; an international journal open to ideas and practices from all countries and cultures; and a cutting-edge journal with up-to-date briefings on latest developments in neuroscience relevant to psychotherapy and counselling. Articles - Teenage Killings: Loss, Trauma and Abandonment in the Histories of Young People in Trouble by Rachel Wingfield - Behind Closed Doors: Sexual Excitement as a Re-enactment of Trauma by Liat Levy - Erotic Gift-Giving from Client to Therapist in Relational Psychotherapy by Benjamin Marr - Response to Paper by Benjamin Marr on Erotic Gift-Giving in Relational Psychotherapy by Barry Christie - Applications of the Child Attachment Interview. A Practitioner–Researcher’s Experience of Working with the Measure of Attachment in Middle Childhood by Joanna North - Attachment to the Unborn Child and Parental Mental Representations of Pregnancy Following Perinatal Loss by Joann M. O’Leary and Clare Thorwick - ‘The Making of Her’: My Boarding School Experience by Mary Stack - ‘What Do You Think Is Going On Here? Is This Individual Therapy Or Couple Therapy?’ by Jenny Riddell