One‐person and two‐person conceptions of attachment and their implications for psychoanalytic thought
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8972367 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Paul L Wachtel (0000-0002-7026-5106, City College of New York, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 91 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 561-581 |
| Publication date | 2010-03-22 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The International Journal of Psychoanalysis (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-7578 • E-ISSN: 1745-8315 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1745-8315.2010.00265.x |
| PMID | 20590928 |
| OpenAlex | W1869895392 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 40 |
There has been increasing interest among analysts in the possibilities of enriching psychoanalytic thought through fuller incorporation of attachment theory and research. This paper offers a clinical illustration of the ways in which attention to an attachment perspective can lead to novel and useful ways of addressing the patient's issues. It also presents a number of cautions that it is necessary to be alert to if attachment thinking is to achieve its full potential in advancing psychoanalytic thought and practice. Conceptions of attachment and approaches to its study and clinical use actually vary quite substantially. Some are more one-person, static, and categorical. Others are more two-person, dynamic, and focused on the process whereby attachment patterns develop and are maintained over time. This paper explores the distinction between these two versions of attachment theory and research with two aims in mind - first, to refine our understanding of the potential role that attachment thinking can play in advancing the psychoanalytic paradigm; second, to utilize the insights achieved through examining the attachment paradigm to consider some broader issues in the construction of psychoanalytic theory more generally and its relational variant in particular
Attachment theory · Epistemology · Perspective (graphical · Psychoanalysis · Psychoanalytic theory · Computer Science · Personality Disorders and Psychopathology · Philosophy · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications · Social Psychology · Transactional Analysis in Psychotherapy
Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis
Unformulated experience
Group psychology and the analysis of the ego.
Object Relations in Psychoanalytic Theory
Relational Concepts in Psychoanalysis
The two‐person unconscious
What lies beyond interpretation, and is that the right question?
Fundamental pathways to change
One person and two person psychologies and the method of psychoanalysis
Knowing oneself from the inside out, knowing oneself from the outside in
What lies beyond interpretation, and is that the right question
The language of psychoanalysis
Conflict in the Middle Voice
Deconstructing the Myth of the Neutral Analyst
Are "primitive" object relations really preoedipal
The foundational level of psychodynamic meaning
Emotions and emotional communication in infants
The Interpretations of the Past
Psychoanalysis and the Dynamic Psychotherapies
The Reconstruction of Reminiscence
Standing in the Spaces
| Citations per year | 0.27 |
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| Citation span | 2011 - 2020 (10) |
| Highly cited | No |