Ainsworth (1978) designed the Strange Situation (Ainsworth, Blehar, Waters, & Wall, 1978) to observe the infants’ motivation to be near the mother, how they would use her as a secure base from which to explore the environment and how they would react to brief separations and reunions. Based on how infants responded in this experiment, Ainsworth (1978) and her colleagues defined three attachment styles: secure, insecure avoidant and insecure resistant/ambivalent attachment. Can even take this out
The importance of attachment in early life cannot be emphasised enough. Over the last century or so this has been recognised as one of, if not the most significant stage of development in a human being’s life. With the aid of works from noted theorists such as Bowlby, Ainsworth, Harlow, and Main, this paper will focus on attachment and its many effects and influences from infancy to death and even carrying on through future generations. Attachment theory originated from the research of psychoanalyst
Attachment Theory in the Therapeutic Alliance ....the therapist role is analogous to that of a mother who provides her son a secure base from which to explore the world (Bowlby, 1988). I was always intrigued by the fact that psychotherapy inevitably involves a kind of interaction between two (or more) people who bring with them their own baggage to the therapy. The client is the one who is being ‘helped’ in and from the process of therapy but self growth and personal development is bidirectional