Attachment Volume 8 Number 1

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 - Attachment in the age of austerity by Kate Brown - Sexuality in Old and New Psychoanalysis by Louis Breger - Trauma at Home: How Betrayal Trauma and Attachment Theories Understand the Human Response to Abuse by an Attachment Figure by Rosemary E. Bernstein and Jennifer J. Freyd - Therapeutic Alliance with Abuser Alters in Dissociative Identity Disorder: The Paradox of Attachment to the Abuser by Ruth Blizard - “Taking Off”: Attachments and Exploration in a Therapeutic Writing Group by Elizabeth Sarkany - Ideal Mother Image –– Realisation Through Video by Eti Wade and Fiona Yaron-Field