Attachment Theory and Group Analysis: The Group Matrix as a Secure Base

1987 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 109-117 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liza Glenn
Keyword(s):  
Attachment Theory ◽  
Group Analysis ◽  
Secure Base ◽  
Group Matrix

Developmental Perspectives on Parenting

2021 ◽  
pp. 25-49
Author(s):  
Rochelle F. Hentges ◽  
Meredith J. Martin
Keyword(s):  
Child Development ◽  
Life Span ◽  
Attachment Theory ◽  
Reproductive Strategies ◽  
Life History Theory ◽  
Developmental Psychology ◽  
Psychological Needs ◽  
Middle Level ◽  
Secure Base ◽  
Parenting Influences

This chapter discusses two leading middle-level theories within evolutionary psychology, which attempt to explain both how and why parenting influences child development across the life span. First, it presents an overview of one of the most influential evolutionary theories in developmental psychology: John Bowlby’s attachment theory. Attachment theory revolutionized the way people understand the nature of the parent–child bond, framing the parent as not just a provider of physical needs but also as a secure base for emotional and psychological needs. These early-life bonds between the caregiver and infant are further proposed to form the basis for relationship attachments across the life span. Next, the chapter addresses how competing strategies toward resource allocation can influence individual differences in parental investment and sensitivity. According to life history theory, differences in the caregiving environment, in turn, promote the formation of distinct reproductive strategies, resulting in behavioral, social, and physiological differences across child development.

The Pygmalion concept in group analysis: the conductor’s anti-group and the search for the group as a container

2018 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-50
Author(s):  
Maria Papanastassiou
Keyword(s):  
Group Dynamics ◽  
Group Analysis ◽  
Group Contributions ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
Group Matrix ◽  
Group Member ◽  
Group Experience

The conductor’s identity as a group member, allied with the potential for the unconscious co-creation of anti-group forces is the centre-stage for the debate I herewith present. This is inextricable from, and central to, the complex inter-subjective group matrix. The conductor’s counter-transference as an inter-subjective group experience, lends powerful insights into feelings of hate in the group, and its resultant anti-group dynamics. How hate may be understood as a shared, co-created experience is examined. The conductor’s potential for narcissistic over-identification with the group and possible lack of containment, is explored, including the potential for anti-group contributions. The myth of Pygmalion illustrates the frustration encountered when the container fails to meet one’s needs. Suggestions are offered regarding the importance for conductors to work through potential contributions of anti-group forces and their own hate of the group.1

Attachment Theory: A Biological Basis for Psychotherapy?

1993 ◽  
Vol 163 (4) ◽  
pp. 430-438 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeremy Holmes
Keyword(s):  
Attachment Theory ◽  
Developmental Psychology ◽  
Insecure Attachment ◽  
Secure Base ◽  
Biological Basis ◽  
John Bowlby ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Shared Narrative ◽  
Biological Foundation

John Bowlby bemoaned the separation between the biological and psychological approaches in psychiatry, and hoped that attachment theory, which brings together psychoanalysis and the science of ethology, would help bridge the rift between them. Recent findings in developmental psychology have delineated features of parent–infant interaction, especially responsiveness, attunement, and modulation of affect, which lead to either secure or insecure attachment. Similar principles can be applied to the relationship between psychotherapist and patient - the provision of a secure base, the emergence of a shared narrative (‘autobiographical competence’), the processing of affect, coping with loss - these are common to most effective psychotherapies and provide the basis for a new interpersonal paradigm within psychotherapy. Attachment theory suggests they rest on a sound ethological and hence biological foundation.

Attachment Theory and Concern for Others'Welfare: Evidence That Activation of the Sense of Secure Base Promotes Endorsement of Self-Transcendence Values

2003 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 299-312 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mario Mikulincer ◽  
Omri Gillath ◽  
Yael Sapir-Lavid ◽  
Erez Yaakobi ◽  
Keren Arias ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Attachment Theory ◽  
Secure Base ◽  
Self Transcendence

Attachment as Moderator Variable in Counseling and Psychotherapy with Adults

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cheri L. Marmarosh ◽  
Michelle Wallace
Keyword(s):  
Group Therapy ◽  
Attachment Theory ◽  
Empirical Work ◽  
Automatic Thoughts ◽  
The Other ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Secure Base ◽  
Individual Counseling ◽  
Moderator Variable ◽  
Therapeutic Modalities

This chapter reviews John Bowlby’s attachment theory and examines how client attachments influence individual, couple, and group therapy treatments. Bowlby (1988) specifically emphasized how the individual counseling relationship provides a new secure attachment experience for clients that offers them the opportunity to internalize more positive working models of themselves and others. Similarly, in couple counseling, therapy challenges automatic negative expectations that hinder intimacy, and it facilitates each partner in becoming a secure base for the other. Group therapy, like the other modalities, encourages members to examine their internal representations of themselves and others in the group, and the group becomes a secure base from which to examine automatic thoughts and emotions that often hinder intimacy. The chapter includes an extensive review of the empirical work applying attachment theory to these three therapeutic modalities, and it concludes by addressing future research and clinical implications.

Adult Trauma Work in Music Therapy

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heidi Ahonen
Keyword(s):  
Music Therapy ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Therapy Group ◽  
Therapeutic Process ◽  
Group Analysis ◽  
Music Listening ◽  
Entry Level ◽  
Music Psychotherapy ◽  
Group Matrix ◽  
The Individual

Adult trauma work in music therapy is well established globally, and various approaches presented in the literature reveal the positive impact of using music as part of a therapeutic process. The main music psychotherapy techniques in adult trauma work include improvisation and music listening.Group Analytic Music Therapy(GAMT) was developed by the author. GAMT is a combination of group analysis, interpersonal theories, and intersubjectivity. The therapy group is observed and analyzed from three different perspectives, responding to: (1) The individual in the group (the intersubjective window); (2) the members with one another (the interpersonal window); and (3) the group-as-a-whole (the group matrix window). This chapter presents some of the techniques and methods of the GAMT with the caveat that further training beyond entry level to music therapy is needed to use these techniques and methods.

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