THEORIES OF ATTACHMENT - KEY-CONCEPTS AND APPLICABLE REMODELING IN PSYCHOANALYTIC THERAPY Cover Image

THEORIES OF ATTACHMENT - KEY-CONCEPTS AND APPLICABLE REMODELING IN PSYCHOANALYTIC THERAPY
THEORIES OF ATTACHMENT - KEY-CONCEPTS AND APPLICABLE REMODELING IN PSYCHOANALYTIC THERAPY

Author(s): Simona TRIFU, Raluca Zamfir
Subject(s): Psychology
Published by: Editura Pro Universitaria
Keywords: attachment; psychoanalytic framework; dynamics of the therapeutic relationship; archaic functioning

Summary/Abstract: This scientific paper is intended as an overview of the visions of Bowlby, Margaret Mahler, Melanie Klein and other authors interested in building a theory of attachment, with direct applicability and examples taken from the clinical area, from the psychoanalytic psychotherapy, with references to therapist - patient relationship and countertransference dynamics, concepts such as projection, projective identification, primitive and symbiotic functioning, parent - child relationship and the subjective feeling of "being in the center of the universe."

  • Issue Year: 2013
  • Issue No: 04
  • Page Range: 102-121
  • Page Count: 20