Practical Applications of Transforming the Attachment Relationship to God

Practical Applications of Transforming the Attachment Relationship to God discusses four distinct attachment relationships to the God of personal spiritual experience and considers how each of these relationships has implications for working with clients in psychotherapy.

Geoff Goodman is Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences in the Emory University School of Medicine and Associate Professor of Psychology and Spiritual Care in the Emory University Candler School of Theology in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. He holds board certifications in clinical psychology and psychoanalysis from the American Board of Professional Psychology.

Acknowledgments Note on the Text Chapter 1. Introduction Part I. Using Autobiographies to Illustrate Attachment to God: Three Attachment Relationship Patterns Chapter 2. Coretta Scott King: Secure Attachment to the Living God Chapter 3. Anne Frank: Anxious-Resistant Attachment-Higher Power as Compensation Chapter 4. Bill W.: Anxious-Avoidant Attachment-Higher Power as Compensation Chapter 5. Sigmund Freud: Anxious-Avoidant Attachment-in Denial About the Possibility of a Higher Power Part II. A Clinical Application of Attachment-Informed Psychotherapy Chapter 6. A Yogi in Attachment-Informed Psychotherapy: A Spiritually Informed Case Conceptualization Chapter 7. What I Have Personally Learned from Writing this Book Author Index Subject Index