Attachment Theory and Psychotherapy Integration

An Introduction and Review of the Literature

Gold, Jerry

¹Adelphi University

Jerry Gold, Department of Psychology, Adelphi University, Garden City, NY 11530 [email protected]

Journal of Psychotherapy Integration 21(3):p 221-231, September 2011. | DOI: 10.1037/a0025490

As an introduction to the special issue on attachment theory as a foundation for psychotherapy integration, this article will review the uses to which the theory has been employed by integrative theorists and clinicians during the past four decades. Reasons that this theory has been so influentially within psychotherapy integration are discussed, as are some of the models that are explicitly based on attachment theory.