Some therapists don’t like Bowlby’s traditional Stages of Attachment Theory.
It can be over simple and doesn’t capture the complexity of the pre-verbal repeating experience. It is a helpful start to understanding transference and is a neat & easy to remember theory/model. Straight forward to put yourself in one of the stages to explain a behaviour.
An updated version called Attachment Regulation Spectrum adds a welcome complexity but still relatively simple understanding of attachment. It opens up the theory to be on a spectrum where you can have certain attachment styles in different relationships. Some relationships activate unconscious parts which create different coping strategies. And they alter & change along with the development of the relationship.
The podcast is long: and cannot escape a connection to neurology and the modern malaise of change, healing & being fixed. Versus our pre-verbal world being who we are: heal it and we stop being?
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