This lecture will focus on the application of attachment theory and its constructs to psychotherapy. It will look at how different attachment patterns/strategies manifest in a therapeutic relationship as well as in one’s close relationships. In particular, the lecture will focus on the preoccupied, avoidant and unresolved patient as well as on attachment-related constructs such as mentalization, attachment-related trauma, dissociation, etc. and how these relate to constructs traditionally used in psychodynamic therapies (such as therapeutic relationship, transference -counter-transference, enactment, etc).
The lecture will take place from 10.00 to 11.40. Completion of the course will be through a written test on the assigned literature during the examination period.