{"title":"The attachment antecedents of shame: mothers’ representations of the shamed self","authors":"J. Solomon, C. George","doi":"10.33212/att.v15n2.2021.159","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33212/att.v15n2.2021.159","url":null,"abstract":"This study was designed to explore the intergenerational roots of shame in the context of attachment. The sample comprised sixty-nine mothers with four- and five-year-old children (54 girls, M = 58 months) drawn from a study of parenting risk. The mothers (age range 25–48) were culturally diverse, educated, partnered, and middle to upper-middle class. Mothers completed the Adult Attachment Projective (AAP) (George & West, 2012) and children completed the Attachment Doll Play Assessment (ADPA) (Solomon et al., 1995). The dyad was also videotaped interacting with a realistic baby doll and maternal behaviour was rated using Britner et al.’s (2005) maternal scales. The authors developed a coding system to capture three shame-related variables from mothers’ narratives of parent–child conflict in response to one of the AAP stimuli (Child in Corner): 1) evidence of shame; 2) parental socialisation actions; and 3) parental efforts to regulate the child’s shame. Results showed that three-quarters of mothers referred to implicit or explicit shame, but socialisation depicting shame was unrelated to child attachment security. Most mothers described harsh socialisation practices and incomplete efforts to repair the child’s shame. Only mothers of securely attached children described socialisation actions to emotionally repair the relationship. The shame measures were partially validated with the maternal parent–child interaction observation rating variables. The utility and limitations of the new measures are discussed in terms of their potential usefulness to research, clinical assessment, and treatment.","PeriodicalId":296880,"journal":{"name":"Attachment: New Directions in Psychotherapy and Relational Psychoanalysis","volume":"38 7","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121006768","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The tribute to John Southgate made at “A celebration of the life of John Southgate”, London, 19 May 2021","authors":"V. Sinason","doi":"10.33212/att.v15n2.2021.232","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33212/att.v15n2.2021.232","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":296880,"journal":{"name":"Attachment: New Directions in Psychotherapy and Relational Psychoanalysis","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121624994","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Captain Aguilera and filicide: an attachment-based exploration","authors":"Arturo Ezquerro","doi":"10.33212/att.v15n2.2021.279","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33212/att.v15n2.2021.279","url":null,"abstract":"This article aims to explore a constellation of individual-attachment, family-attachment, and group-attachment experiences, as well as other psychosocial, cultural, and political factors, which contributed to the dual filicide perpetrated by Captain Gonzalo de Aguilera Munro—a count, landowner, cavalryman, and propaganda press officer for General Francisco Franco’s army during the Spanish Civil War. Learning from Luis Arias González and, above all, Paul Preston’s biographies of Captain Aguilera, the article will employ a combined methodology of historical investigation, psychiatric clinical formulations, and group analysis. In doing so, it will take into account a highly complex context of brutal group dynamics of national depression and exaltation, unresolved trauma, military rebellion, war, genocide, holocaust, and dictatorship.","PeriodicalId":296880,"journal":{"name":"Attachment: New Directions in Psychotherapy and Relational Psychoanalysis","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115817273","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"John Southgate: pioneer of attachment-based psychotherapy","authors":"B. Kahr","doi":"10.33212/att.v15n2.2021.vii","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33212/att.v15n2.2021.vii","url":null,"abstract":"Back in the summer of 1986, more than thirty-five years ago, I had the privilege of chairing a special symposium on “Psycho/Analysis” at Keynes College, in the University of Kent at Canterbury. Whilst I cannot recall very much about the contents of this event, I do remember the tremendous pleasure of having met John Southgate—one of the key invited speakers—for the very first time. During the 1980s, long before the creation of any formal registration bodies such as the British Psychoanalytic Council or the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy, most British psychoanalysts and psychotherapists comported themselves in a very sectarian and hierarchical manner. Freudians rarely talked to Jungians; Kleinians loathed speaking to Winnicottians; and very few members of the psychoanalytical establishment even acknowledged the existence of clinicians from the humanistic psychotherapy traditions. In retrospect, one might well describe that period of psychological history as somewhat narrow-minded and elitist, with little respect for theoretical diversity. But John Southgate stood out most uniquely as an individual whom one could not classify as a “Freudian” or a “Jungian”. Rather, he had long identified himself as a “barefoot psychoanalyst” who endeavoured to assist his clients to undertake their own “self analysis”—a rather different conceptualisation from the more traditional model in which the analyst would “treat” the “patient”. Within moments of meeting John in Canterbury and within minutes of hearing him deliver his presentation, championing the importance of secure attachments, I knew that this original man would make a major contribution to our profession. Born on 26 May, 1934, John Peter Southgate grew up in the town of Carlton, on the outskirts of Nottingham, in the East Midlands of England, the only child of Daisy May Clara Highfield Southgate—a market trader from a Jewish background—and of Nolan Southgate—a bus driver from a Protestant family. This couple enjoyed a long and fruitful alliance in spite of the narrow-minded prejudice of certain relations","PeriodicalId":296880,"journal":{"name":"Attachment: New Directions in Psychotherapy and Relational Psychoanalysis","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123510967","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Wounded by reality: emotional deprivation and unresolved trauma in psychoanalytical couple’s therapy","authors":"Hélène Béïnoglou","doi":"10.33212/att.v15n2.2021.253","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33212/att.v15n2.2021.253","url":null,"abstract":"In this article, I will focus on highly conflictual couples with extensive emotional deprivation and unresolved trauma, which prevents them from developing healthy romantic relationships and overcoming the challenges entailed in any intimate attachment. I will describe how everyday interactions are experienced as threatening or even lethal movements between the partners. The question which arises in the psychoanalytical therapeutic process is how to help the couple tolerate the sensory reminders of the unresolved trauma as a necessary precursor to any process of symbolisation. In order to provide a safe enough therapeutic attachment bond, extensive time is dedicated to the emotional experience of self and the other in the here-and-now of the session, which validates the emotional experience of the couple as well as contains it. The therapy focuses on the transferential and countertransferential movements inspired by the matrix of the victim, abuser, and uninvolved witness (Davies & Frawley, 1994) to elaborate the intertwining of the unresolved trauma with the couple’s form of attachment. In order to illustrate my argument, I present two examples: one from a fictional narration and another from my clinical work.","PeriodicalId":296880,"journal":{"name":"Attachment: New Directions in Psychotherapy and Relational Psychoanalysis","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124745841","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Attachment, deadness, desire, and addictive buzz traps","authors":"Graham Music","doi":"10.33212/att.v15n2.2021.198","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33212/att.v15n2.2021.198","url":null,"abstract":"In this article I describe those caught up in an increasingly common but worrying phenomenon, that of addictive states of mind, seen, for example, in obsessional use of video games or pornography. While the contemporary world has exacerbated the risks, addictive traits often originate in attempts to escape from an inner pain or deadness towards the false promise offered by the object of addiction. The article offers a different view of the dopaminergic system. It also looks at how the contemporary world is posing new challenges for people who have developed with such a propensity, and we will see how those prone to addictive states of mind struggle to bear certain emotional states, finding them overwhelming, and instead reach for a solution via their addiction.","PeriodicalId":296880,"journal":{"name":"Attachment: New Directions in Psychotherapy and Relational Psychoanalysis","volume":"71 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116359174","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The antecedents and consequences of disorganised attachment and dissociation","authors":"P. Alexander","doi":"10.33212/att.v15n2.2021.181","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33212/att.v15n2.2021.181","url":null,"abstract":"Attachment researchers theorise that the primary antecedent of dissociation is disorganised attachment. However, the family and social contexts of this parent–child relationship are frequently ignored even though they play an important role in determining whether the unresolved attachment of the parent actually leads to the role confusion characteristic of disorganised attachment and dissociation in the child. This article will address first how the dynamics leading to disorganised attachment and dissociation are dependent on the larger family and social contexts; and second how both unresolved attachment and dissociation in the adolescent or adult are often maintained through the choice of a partner, the dissociative symptoms themselves and other social conditions to which these individuals are frequently exposed. Two case studies will illustrate this thesis. Finally, implications for treatment will be explored.","PeriodicalId":296880,"journal":{"name":"Attachment: New Directions in Psychotherapy and Relational Psychoanalysis","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126331558","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The role of discrimination and social defeat on black mental health","authors":"H. Hall","doi":"10.33212/att.v15n1.2021.88","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33212/att.v15n1.2021.88","url":null,"abstract":"Black populations are diagnosed with schizophrenia at a rate that is significantly higher than white populations. This elevated diagnostic rate is often the result of misdiagnosis. This article includes a brief literature review and case presentation highlighting the importance of understanding complex racial trauma when evaluating and treating Black clients.","PeriodicalId":296880,"journal":{"name":"Attachment: New Directions in Psychotherapy and Relational Psychoanalysis","volume":"65 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124112815","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dr Bowlby: a psychiatrist for our times","authors":"S. Kraemer","doi":"10.33212/att.v15n1.2021.21","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33212/att.v15n1.2021.21","url":null,"abstract":"Inspired by his experience as a teacher in a special school, John Bowlby became a doctor in order to give psychological treatment to children and their families. His debt to psychoanalysis is evident, while his determination to give external life events at least equal weight with mental states led him towards attachment theory. This pathway is well known, but Bowlby's parallel career as a child psychiatrist doggedly independent of psychoanalysis or medical practice, is not. His intelligent curiosity about human relationships took him beyond the prevailing scientific and clinical fixation with diagnosis, which persists to this day. Dr Bowlby's clinical approach is a model for modern child and adolescent psychiatrists.","PeriodicalId":296880,"journal":{"name":"Attachment: New Directions in Psychotherapy and Relational Psychoanalysis","volume":"333 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115979846","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Working with adolescents virtually during the Covid-19 period","authors":"I. Duarte","doi":"10.33212/att.v15n1.2021.98","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33212/att.v15n1.2021.98","url":null,"abstract":"In this article, the author proposes to present her therapeutic work with adolescents during the Covid-19 period carried out remotely using Skype. Based on the theories that allow us to understand adolescence as a process of growth and transformation, it was possible to acknowledge the changes that took place in three adolescents in different stages of a relational therapy. The imposition of working virtually created a new way of practising psychotherapy, where the notions of transference and countertransference were essential for the understanding of the intra- and inter-psychic processes that take place in the internal world. Skype was the tool that made it possible to continue the relational presence for working with adolescents.","PeriodicalId":296880,"journal":{"name":"Attachment: New Directions in Psychotherapy and Relational Psychoanalysis","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128007696","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}