Author(s): Mario Marrone (British Psycho-Analytic Society, Institute of Group Analysis)

Attachment Theory

This book focuses on the understanding of the epistemological roots of attachment theory, conceptualised as psychoanalytic paradigm, which highlights the movement away from a one person psychology to a multi person psychology. In this context, attachment theory is viewed as a theory of processes, across generations and across the dynamic interaction between the individual and his worlds of others (including parental figures, offspring, the sexual partner, the group and society). This position is congenial with contemporary philosophical and developmental ideas and recent advances in the neurosciences. It is also a contribution to British Independent Psychoanalytic thinking, the so called relational schools of psychoanalysis and group analysis.