Possibilities of measuring attachment in individual adult psychotherapy

Attachment, ethology and adult psychotherapy.

This article discusses Bowlby's development of an ethological-evolutionary perspective, and its implications for psychotherapy with adults. According to Bowlby, attachment behavior is instinctive, having emerged throughout the course of evolution to ensure protection and actual survival. Because the environment affects how attachment behavior unfolds, adverse experiences can divert developmenta...

Assessment of Individual Differences in Adult Attachment

Alliance in individual psychotherapy.

This article reports on a research synthesis of the relation between alliance and the outcomes of individual psychotherapy. Included were over 200 research reports based on 190 independent data sources, covering more than 14,000 treatments. Research involving 5 or more adult participants receiving genuine (as opposed to analogue) treatments, where the author(s) referred to one of the independen...

Individual differences in adult attachment and reinforcement sensitivity

This study examined the nature of the relationship between adult attachment and sensitivities of the Behavioural Approach System (BAS), Fight-Flight-Freeze System (FFFS), and the Behavioural Inhibition System (BIS) as defined by Gray and McNaughton’s (2000) revised Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory (r-RST). A total of 225 first year psychology students completed the Experiences in Close Relation...

Individual psychotherapy of schizophrenia.

The work of the author and others in the field of psychotherapy of schizophrenia is said to have demonstrated that understanding the patient requires a special therapeutic relationship which is different from that in the psychoanalysis of neurosis because it implies an intrapsychic process that can be described as follows: Parts of the ill personality are introjected by the psychotherapist and ...