Patterns of Relating: An Adult Attachment Perspective

by Malcolm L. West and Adrienne E. Sheldon-Keller

Book Overview

Theories of adult attachment provide new perspectives for understanding, studying, and changing an adult's ability to form life-sustaining personal relationships. Asserting that patterns of social and asocial behavior are strategies for coping with issues of attachment, the authors demonstrate the unique merits of adult attachment theory both as a means for investigating social behavior and as a construct to guide clinical practice. Describing the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0898626714
• ISBN13: 9780898626711
• Release Date: April 1994
• Publisher: Guilford Publications
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.2"