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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790485903321

Autore

Heard Dorothy <1916->

Titolo

The challenge of attachment for caregiving / / by Dorothy Heard

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boca Raton, FL : , : Routledge, an imprint of Taylor and Francis, , [2018]

©2009

ISBN

0-429-92026-1

0-429-90603-X

0-429-48126-8

1-282-13907-X

9786613808363

1-84940-995-1

1-78049-346-0

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (239 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

LakeBrian <1922->

Disciplina

616.89/14

Soggetti

Attachment behavior

Caregivers

Psychotherapist and patient

Object relations (Psychoanalysis)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published: London : Routledge, 1997.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [208]-217) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. The conceptual base for a theory of companionable caregiving -- pt. 2. The construction of a theory of companionable caregiving -- pt. 3. Principles of therapy guided by an attachment-based theory of caregiving.

Sommario/riassunto

The Challenge of Attachment for Caregiving describes a theoretical model for the development of caregiving that complements and also extends attachment theory. The model highlights the conditions under which adult caregivers can remain in a state of arrested development, impairing their own ability to give care and resulting in attachment problems for those who seek care from them. It shows how insecure attachment in childhood and adolescence impedes the development of caregiving and how, in times of crisis, even securely attached individuals need appropriate support in order to sustain their capacity



to give effective care. Constructing a systemic model of the self, the authors place the instinctive systems for caregiving and careseeking (attachment) within a theory that relates them to other systems of the self, such as the systems for sharing interests, sexuality and for self-defence. The model describes the interplay between these goal-corrected behavioural systems.