Название: Introducing Cognitive Analytic Therapy
Автор: Anthony Ryle
Издательство: John Wiley & Sons Limited
Жанр: Психотерапия и консультирование
isbn: 9781119695134
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The behavioral patterns (for example care‐ or proximity‐seeking behavior) described by attachment theorists can also be seen to be subsumed within such repertoires. However, as pointed out by Gilbert (1992), they would be, phylogenetically, only one of many adaptive developmental behaviors. Attachment theorists (Bowlby, 1988) have also properly pointed to the life‐long importance of negotiation of issues relating to attachment and loss. In parallel, writers such as Stevens and Price (1996) have described the concept of “frustration of archetypal intent,” by analogy with the ethological phenomenon of the “search for the object never known.” This could manifest, for example, in the case of someone who never had the experience of a good mother or father, as a life‐long search for this never‐experienced, perhaps idealized, relationship. This phenomenon can be recognized clinically and described in terms of role enactments and can be important to identify and work with.
Primitive, stereotypic responses to highly stressful situations provide perhaps more definite examples of such pre‐programmed predispositions. These would include fight, flight, or freezing responses to threat, the sensitivity to shame which we share with other social animals (Gilbert & Andrews, 1998), and the resort to dichotomous, “black and white” thinking derived in evolution from the critical need to distinguish friend from foe (including especially in the context of large groups), or safe from dangerous situations. Some of these responses, particularly dichotomous thinking, may be a focus of psychotherapy, as may the stereotypic consequences of prolonged stress or trauma on the developing self (see Kalsched, 1998, 2013). Primitive responses such as these are most often elicited in those who have been subject to threat and abuse during their own upbringing and can manifest in social phenomena such as racism, aggressive nationalism, stigmatizing behavior, and overt violence (see Braten, 2013; Zulueta, 1993). Expression of these will also be determined by the history, power relations, and dominant ideology of different societies. By contrast, those who have been treated with love and respect tend to re‐enact those roles and are capable of more considered and compassionate responses to stressful situations. It should be noted, despite the history of our past century, that the dominant tendencies enacted by our species have also included, and potentially remain, those of cooperation, creativity, and mutual interdependence.
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