Bad Blood Revisited: Attachment and Psychoanalysis, 2015

Fonagy, Peter; Campbell, Chloë

doi:10.1111/bjp.12150

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“…Also, we need to know whether attachment status per se is the issue or whether, for example, poor parenting, or the recent concept of epistemic trust/distrust intervene more in the development of psychopathology. All these questions need further research [29].…”

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Attachment Styles and Personality Structure

Miño¹,

Guendelman²,

Castillo‐Carniglia³

et al. 2018

J Depress Anxiety

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Individuels de Relation (CAMIR); IPOIn the 1970s the work of Ainsworth helped to refine the attachment concept. With her colleagues, Ainsworth developed a laboratory procedure called the Strange Situation, which was designed to assess the quality and organization of infant attachment and exploratory behavior in the context of incrementally increasing environmental stress [3]. The Strange Situation consists of a series of infant-caregiver Abstract Introduction: Several studies have shown that insecure attachment representations play a central role in the psychopathology of personality disorders, however, it is unclear how the adult attachment disorders relate to the personality organization.Objective: To evaluate the correlation between secure, dismissing and preoccuppied attachment styles and personality structure, in two samples: a clinic and a control group.Methods: A descriptive, cross-sectional study with a sample of 27 women hospitalized in a psychiatric unit and a non-clinical sample of 24 women in regular health check. Inventory of Personality Organization (IPO) and the Cartes: Modèles Individuels de Relation (CAMIR) were applied. Results:The percentage of secure prototype is lower in the clinical group (14.8% vs. 37.5%). The clinical group showed on average 22 points higher on the IPO. No significant association between attachment style and the three primary scales of the IPO was observed, although the score on these three scales was lower among those with a secure attachment style. People with secure attachment had on average 42 points lower on the OQ-45.2 than the other two groups, a difference that was statistically significant. Conclusion:Small sample size would not permit the association to be statistically significant. Further research is needed.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 96%

Attachment Styles and Personality Structure

Miño¹,

Guendelman²,

Castillo‐Carniglia³

et al. 2018

J Depress Anxiety

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“…When Bowlby () came to view instincts as evolutionary responses to external circumstance, psychoanalytic theory was so wedded to containment of instincts and development within the psyche, that he had to step outside it to do so (Fonagy, ), while Fairbairn's early work in this regard remained unpublished.…”

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From Dualism to Dynamism: Fairbairn's Critique of Libido Theory 1930–1950

Forbes‐Pitt¹

2018

Brit J Psychotherapy

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In 1930 Fairbairn wrote ‘Libido theory re‐evaluated’, which remained unpublished until 1994. It contains the beginnings of theoretical arguments that, I argue, resulted in his more famous 1940s papers. I posit that Fairbairn's critique of Freud's analytical dualist theoretical foundation is consistent with, and lays the ground for, his later work. Using the papers ‘Schizoid factors in the personality’ (1940), ‘The repression and return of bad objects’ (1943), ‘Endopsychic structure considered in terms of object‐relationships’ (1944), and ‘Object‐relationships and dynamic structure’ (1946), I show how Fairbairn's critique is relevant to his later propositions and elucidate Fairbairn's metatheoretical assumptions, about which he was not explicit after 1930. I argue that his theoretical propositions arise as a result of his longstanding, consistent critique that led him to replace analytical dualism with dynamical structure. Further, I argue that Klein, and Khan and Winnicott's criticism is unjustified; Fairbairn did not challenge the content of a theory he describes as ‘truths of fundamental importance’, he challenged its theorization. Because it resulted in his important theoretical propositions, Fairbairn's longstanding critique of libido theory is important within the history of psychoanalytic thought and deserves scholarly attention.

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“…Fonagy and Campbell's () analysis of epistemic trust provides a way of thinking about these phenomena. They write that social learning – learning from and about others and the environment – requires the development of epistemic trust: ‘a development which is itself dependent on relatively secure attachment and the associated nonverbal use of “ostensive cues”’ (such as eye contact, and a special tone of voice).…”

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“…Fonagy and Campbell () write of the importance of ‘acting contingently in accordance with the internal state of another person’ (p. 240). Meares and Jones () write, of the therapeutic conversation, that it needs to ‘reflect the structure of the form of consciousness’ in the patient at any one time and describe the need for ‘a form of conversation that resembles the essence of inner coherence’ (p. 507).…”

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Some Thoughts on Psychic Retreats

Tamas¹

2016

Brit J Psychotherapy

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This paper explores connections between psychic retreats, particularly of the kind described in Richard Carvalho's paper, and certain other defences rooted in early relational trauma (Schore ). After distinguishing between Carvalho's theory and John Steiner's () original formulation, the paper describes Schore's () work on infantile dissociation and draws attention to the pre‐symbolic processes that could form the basis from which the symbolic content of the psychic retreat develops. The paper underlines the connection between psychic retreats and secondary dissociative states of which psychic retreats constitute a distinctive class. It investigates the relationship between psychic retreats and Bick's () concept of the second skin defence. The paper goes on to explore theories that suggest that understanding the level at which patients are functioning is the key to the level of work we engage in. It provides clinical examples to illustrate some of the points made.

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Bad Blood Revisited: Attachment and Psychoanalysis, 2015

Cited by 53 publications

References 61 publications

Attachment Styles and Personality Structure

Attachment Styles and Personality Structure

From Dualism to Dynamism: Fairbairn's Critique of Libido Theory 1930–1950

Some Thoughts on Psychic Retreats

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