…ss. However, psychoanalysis fails to deal effectively with the significant role that death anxiety plays in life and its powerful impact on the ongoing development of the individual. On the other hand, existential psychology focuses on understanding the importance of death awareness and dying on the personality, as well as other issues of being, such as individuation, autonomy and transcendent goals. However, existential psychology tends to neglec…
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…ing effect on the child, which has a positive effect on his or her ongoing development. That child will tend to be securely attached, harmonious in his/her relationships, and tolerant of intimacy as an adult. In contrast, contact with an emotionally hungry parent leaves a child impoverished, anxiously attached, and hurting.” When we talk about child development, it’s important to distinguish the current trend of Attachment Parenting from Attachmen…
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…’s where my particular work comes in. As you know, my work is on the early development of the brain. But also how that early development is influenced by the attachment relationships. So now we’re looking at, not biological OR psychological models, but models through which these both interact. And it’s been said that nature and nurture first come together in the mother/infant relationship. And as you’re well aware now, all the major psychotherapy…
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…Bowlby, and D.W. Winnicott. Each wrote extensively about trust and the key role it plays in children’s ongoing growth and development. Erikson proposed that infants develop basic trust when they have successfully resolved the first psychosocial crisis (or opportunity) in life, the conflict between Trust and Mistrust. A baby being raised by adults who respond consistently in trying to meet its needs develops trust by the end of the first year. Erik…
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…ear abandonment. They are diverted from what would have been their natural developmental pathway and they go on to lead primarily defended lives. I have defined emotional child abuse as damage to the child’s psychological development and emerging personal identity, primarily caused by parents’ or primary caretakers’ immaturity, defended lifestyle, and conscious or unconscious aggression toward the child. Specific examples of emotional mistreatment…
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…ave contributed significantly to my understanding of human behavior. These developments have further convinced me of the value of revising The Fantasy Bond to include the evolution in my own thinking, as well as corroborative research in related disciplines. This edition is especially timely because it identifies significant psychological and social factors, based on people’s defensive responses to existential fears, that contribute to malignant p…
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“If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail” – Abraham Maslow Seeking out the assistance of a therapist is a desperate and courageous act. Typically, for a parent, it means they have tried and failed to help their child behave, so they have friends, get along with siblings and family members, and achieve their potential at school. Parents often state that what they want their child to get from therapy are “tools to manage their beh…
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…owne, M. O., Piazza, M. , Posada‐Villa, J. , Torres, Y. , ten Have, M. L., Kessler, R. C. and Scott, K. M. (2016), Cross‐national epidemiology of panic disorder and panic attacks in the world mental health surveys. Depress Anxiety, 33: 1155-1177. doi:10.1002/da.22572 Brown, L. A., Lebeau, R., Liao, B., Niles, A. N., Glenn, D., & Craske, M. G. (2016). A comparison of the nature and correlates of panic attacks in the context of Panic Disorder and So…
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…ctant to relinquish the comfort and safety they offer. Once hurt, they are afraid to be vulnerable again. As a result, they resist intrusion into each component of the fantasy bond: the idealization of parents and family, the preservation of a corresponding negative self-image (i.e., a basic conception of oneself as unworthy, unlovable or bad), the displacement of negative parental traits onto others and the world at large, the development of an i…
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