Using Psychoanalytic Techniques to Transform the Attachment Relationship to God

Our Refuge and Strength

Geoff Goodman author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd

Publishing:7th May '25

£140.00

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Using Psychoanalytic Techniques to Transform the Attachment Relationship to God demonstrates how clinicians can use Attachment-Informed Psychotherapy (AIP) to enhance clients’ understanding of their relationship to God and significant others.

Geoff Goodman discusses four distinct attachment relationships to the God of personal spiritual experience and explains the implications for working with clients in psychotherapy. By asking how therapists can work through clients’ attachment relationship to God as a displacement of their attachment relationships to parents, and how therapists can work through clients’ attachment relationships to parents as a displacement of their attachment relationship to God, this book provides unique insight into the therapeutic process. Goodman’s objective is to enable clinicians to transform these attachment relationships, restoring wholeness and unity – a crucial treatment goal of AIP.

Using Psychoanalytic Techniques to Transform the Attachment Relationship to God will be a valuable resource for psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, marriage and family therapists, and pastoral counsellors in practice and in training.

“Drawing from psychological attachment theory and pastoral care theology, “Our Refuge and Strength: Using Psychoanalytic Techniques to Transform the Attachment Relationship to God” is the best integration of psychology and spirituality to date. Moreover, the author’s insightful case studies demonstrate the mysterious dynamics of moving from theory to practice. All readers, from seasoned professional therapists to aspiring student chaplains, will treasure Goodman’s book.” – John Snarey, Franklin N. Parker Professor Emeritus, Emory University

“With his landmark achievement Our Refuge and Strength: Transforming Attachment to the Living God, Dr. Goodman provides key extensions to previous research on the attachment-religion connection. He takes this work to the therapy room as well as to flesh and blood of lived experience – his own and that of important historical figures. I thoroughly enjoyed this book, which is a must-read for anyone interested in the attachment-religion connection.” – Pehr Granqvist, The Eneroth Professor of Psychology, Dept. of Psychology, Stockholm University

ISBN: 9781032913711

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190 pages