Secure Attachment Theory

Abstract

Attachment theory appeared from the cross-fertilization of object relatives psychoanalysis and the research of ethnology. It boasts a helpful theoretical structure for psychodynamic counselling. It is clear, comprehensible, and susceptible to untested testing. Longitudinal investigations of young children classified as protected or insecure at one year have connected non-verbal interactional patterns of infancy with the emergence of 'autobiographical competence' in subsequent life(Ainsworth 20). Counselling and psychotherapy can be conceived as being founded on the action from insecure to protected attachment. The significance of a protected therapeutic groundwork, of logical narrative, the attunement of the counsellor, the processing of sway particularly wrath, and the emergence of self-exploration inside the security of the therapy connection are recounted as absolutely crucial components of psychodynamic counselling (Kilmann 568).

 

Discussion

Attachment theory is intended to recount and interpret people's enduring patterns of connections from birth to death. This domain overlaps substantially with that of Interpersonal Theory(Hughes 100). Because attachment is considered to have an evolutionary cornerstone, attachment theory is furthermore associated to Evolutionary Psychology.

Attachment Styles: An Evolving Taxonomy of Evolutionarily Adaptive and Maladaptive Affectional Bonds

The overhead form (taken from Bartholomew, 1990) is one representation of attachment methods, or ways of considering with attachment, parting, and decreases in close individual relationships. Attachment was first investigated in non-human animals, then in human infants, and subsequent in human adults(Bowlby 56).

Basic study on animal demeanour, if it is to request to humans, should suppose that there is homology between the animal and human processes. Homology means that anatomical or behavioural organisations in distinct species share a widespread function and widespread underlying means due to the detail that the species developed from a widespread ancestor (Bartholomew 147). Ethological investigations on imprinting might emerge applicable to human attachment study, since imprinting seems to be a kind of parent-offspring attachment. But as one scribe states, "The charming tales of geese and cranes that court their keepers (to who they were imprinted as hatchlings) have beguiled us all" (Bowlby 56). While imprinting may emerge alike to human parent-offspring bonding, imprinting in geese, cranes, ducks, etc. likely does not rendezvous the homology obligation, since birds and mammals both developed from lizards, and present-day lizards display no clues of parent-offspring bonding (Bowlby 56).

Research displays that attachment happens in canines and monkeys (Hughes 100). A line of animal study that might be applicable to human attachment is Harlow's trials displaying that infant monkey's favour a supple ...