The Challenge of Attachment for Caregiving

ISBN-13: 9781855757288 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 240 str.

Dorothy Heard; Brian Lake

Opis

In this classic work, now reissued, extensions of the Bowlby/Ainsworth attachment theory are described. It also discusses how human beings aspire to reach ideals or, not infrequently, defensive idealizations.

The Challenge of Attachment for Caregiving proposes a model for the development of caregiving, and shows its relation to therapeutic practice while complementing and extending attachment theory. The authors place the instinctive systems for caregiving and careseeking within a theory relating them to other systems of the self, and present the material in a form that enables the therapist to formulate hyptheses about a client's predicament and their way of relating to the therapist and then explore and test these hypotheses in the course of therapy.

The Challenge of Attachment is now being used as a necessary textbook to introduce trainees to McCluskey's model of how to intervene in a psychotherapeutic manner with individuals, couples and groups.

Spis treści

The conceptual base for a theory of companionable caregiving -- A caregiving focus to an extension of attachment theory -- Caregiving from an evolutionary perspective -- Human non-verbal and symbolic communication and two alternative patterns of relating -- Bowlby’s model for instinctive behaviour – based on the concept of goal-corrected behavioural systems -- Extensions to Bowlby’s model of instinctive behaviour -- The emergence of high-order systems of the self -- The construction of a theory of companionable caregiving -- Categorising the functions of instinctive systems of the self with comments on their development -- From behavioural systems to adult relationships by way of internal working models -- How values are acquired and assigned to oneself, people and other entities -- Implicit concepts of caregiving in the development of the concept of self/ego ideals -- Values and ideals in promoting maturation and well-being -- Principles of therapy guided by an attachment-based theory of caregiving -- Theories used by therapists that implicitly or explicitly incorporate the caregiving aspects of attachment -- Assessment -- The therapeutic alliance and the creation of a safe base for personal development -- Separation anxiety, impingement and the therapeutic frame -- The Strange Situation Test -- The adult attachment interview -- An outline of the emergence of the study of attachment style in adults -- Questionnaire about a prospective client for assessors to complete after assessment: to be used in association with the assessment procedure described in Chapter 13

O autorze

Dorothy Heard is a pyschoanalytic psychotherapist in private practice and was formerly a Consultant in John Bowlby's Department at the Tavistock Clinic, London. Brian Lake was formerly Consultant in Psychotherapy at St James's University Hospital, Leeds