Attachment and the Conversational Model
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Dr Joan Haliburn |
Early attachment is viewed as a major organizing principle that may explain important aspects of normal and pathological interpersonal relations across the life cycle – including the therapeutic relationship with patients. (Bowlby 1979) The therapeutic relationship is widely accepted to be the bedrock on which the progress of psychotherapy depends. Attachment theory, with its focus on relationships across the life span, is helpful in understanding the nature and the unfolding of the therapeutic relationship.
That humans are primarily and innately adapted to relatedness with others was proposed by Suttie, (1935) Sullivan (1960) and A. Meares (1961). In the later 1970’s Russell Meares and Robert Hobson further elaborated that the form of relatedness dictates the form of conversation in the psychotherapy situation; and that the form of conversation determines in return the emerging sense of relatedness.
I will briefly describe Attachment Theory (Bowlby 1979) and the different types of attachment, (Bowlby, Ainsworth 1988) and proceed to look at how they inform the development of the therapeutic relationship, and the forms of relatedness required to progress in psychotherapy with the Conversational Model.
Recorded : October 2009 Westmead, NSW, Australia.
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Dr Joan Haliburn
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Dr Joan Halliburn is a Child, Adolescent, Family and Adult Psychiatrist; a trained psychotherapist in private practice; and a senior clinical lecturer at the University of Sydney Complex Trauma Unit, Westmead Hospital. She supervises psychotherapists of all disciplines. She was Director of Training at ANZAP between 1998 and 2009. She has co-authored with Russell Meares and others the Manual of the Conversational Model, and she has contributed a chapter each to two books soon to be published. Dr Halliburn has practised the Conversational Model for the past 25 years.
Dr Halliburn is pioneering a short term Conversational Model therapy, which is being taught alongside the long term model at Westmead. She was invited to accompany a delegation of psychiatrists in 2009 led by the president of the American Psychiatric Association, as part of people-to-people, to study mental health services in Russia, which was a very informative, enlightening experience.
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