Attachment in Psychotherapy

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Currently, adult attachment could be described in terms of two dimensions, adult attachment anxiety and adult attachment avoidance. Attachment, group attraction, and self-other agreement in interpersonal circumplex problems and perceptions of group members.

The repair stage of the therapy aims to alter the patient's current reactions to the events that cause them emotional distress by sharing their own interpretations of the event. The key tenets of attachment-informed psychotherapy are: (1) the therapist-patient attachment relationship is central to promoting change, (2) the in vivo recognition of attachment dynamics during therapy guides formulation and intervention, and (3) therapy can reshape attachment dynamics.Once you have established that a therapist has the credentials and experience you are looking for, it is important to make sure you are comfortable working with that person. To be able to discuss how we can apply knowledge of attachment patterns in the organisation of the treatment process, describing 3 stages in that process in which attachment style may make a difference to the development of the therapeutic work.

It is recommended that clinicians provide counter-complimentary intervention to help break clients’ old patterns. He proposes that focusing on ways in which therapist and patient act-out in their relationship allows us to recognize how our own attachment patterns may be compromising our efforts to create for the patient a new and healing attachment relationship. Finally, he considers the implications for therapeutic practice, examining the role of therapist as a secure base, as a mirror, decoder and regulator of the ‘couple as the patient’. Gilbert and Irons (2005) suggested that writing a compassionate letter to the self or making an audiotape filled with compassionate thoughts or self-soothing statements can increase self-compassion. In this presentation, Sarah Daniel draws on case material from psychotherapy to illustrate how we can apply knowledge of attachment patterns in guiding therapeutic interactions and in the organisation of the treatment process.Getting the patient to face their own trauma has the effect of getting them to accept their own ego and understand why they have trouble creating healthy attachments with people. This lecture outlines the qualities of an attachment-informed psychodynamic psychotherapy, focusing on points of overlap and difference with ‘Independent’ psychoanalytic or relational approaches.

We organise short courses, conferences and events to support the continuing professional development of our members and others.Second, these working models, though presumed to be open to change, are expected to be quite stable over time and come to influence attachment-related functioning across the lifespan. Low scores on both subscales are thought to reflect relatively secure romantic attachment in adults from Western cultures.