Bowlby and Main explained that the avoidant response allows for a survival strategy different from seeking closeness to the caregiver. It allows the child to avoid the negative emotional state associated with closeness to a rejecting
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“In psychoanalysis, when approaching the unconscious—that is, what we do not know—we, patient and analyst alike, are certain to be disturbed. In every consulting-room, there ought to be two rather frightened people: the patient and the psychoanalyst. If they are not both frightened, one wonders why they are bothering to find out what everyone knows.”
― The Tavistock Seminars
― The Tavistock Seminars
“Lift up your eyes from your books, from your past, from your hurts and look upon all people with love, because when you look into another’s eyes and see innocence, you find it in yourself.”
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“Under the guise of making classes of people victims, those in power seductively enslave the masses through entitlement.”
― Restoring Liberty: Personal Freedom and Responsibility in America
― Restoring Liberty: Personal Freedom and Responsibility in America
Psychoanalysis
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This is a group in which you can review books concerning psychoanalysis and its relations with adjoining disciplines (infant research, neuroscience, p ...more
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