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Key Constructs in Attachment Theory: Bowlby, Ainsworth, Main and Fonagy

Date: Friday, May 7, 2010
Time: 1:00 - 5:00 pm
Program No: AT44
CE Credits: 4
Tuition: $85
Instructor: Steven Krugman, Ph.D. and Nancy Lundy, Ph.D.
Location: MSPP
Description: This seminar offers an introduction to attachment theory and its major developmental and clinical dimensions. Beginning with the breakthroughwork of John Bowlby and Mary Ainsworth in the 1950’s, the program will review core concepts of secure and insecure attachments (avoidant, ambivalent, and disorganized/disoriented). Bowlby’s challenge to psychoanalytic theory will be revisited. We will examine Mary Main’s Adult Attachment Interview as a research and clinical instrument. In particular, its remarkable implications for the study of the intergenerational transmission of attachment types will be discussed. The program concludes with a review of Peter Fonagy’s major contributions to contemporary attachment theory and psychoanalysis, with a particular emphasis on the construct of mentalization and reflective functioning.
Objective: N/A
Pre-Requisite: N/A
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