EMDR and Attachment-Focused Trauma Therapy for Adults

Reclaiming Authentic Self and Healthy Attachments

Ann Potter, Debra Wesselmann
Springer Publishing
334 pages
ISBN: 9780826136886
September 2022

At the heart of this innovative text is a strengths-based, Attachment-Focused Trauma Therapy for Adults (AFTT-A) that facilitates healthier functioning and attachment patterns for adult clients. This model uses a multimodal, step-by-step approach to restructuring the internal personality system to reclaim the authentic "Self" by providing new attachment experiences for "Child" parts of Self and negotiating new adult-life roles. The book delivers a sequence of scripted protocols that accesses and activates the client's own strengths, creating an internal system of resources and using bilateral stimulation to deepen positive affective shifts.