Introduction to Attachment Theory
Format: Zoom (via Eventbrite)
Speaker: Dr Mauricio Cortina
Date: Saturday 6th March 14.00 – 15.30 GMT
IAN & AGIP Members fee £35 (enter members discount code at point of purchase) | Non-members fee: £50
Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/introduction-to-attachment-theory-tickets-143580506159
This Seminar is also Week 1 of our PG Certificate in Attachment Theory. Registered PG Cert students will be given a code to access free tickets on the Eventbrite page on the day of the seminar.
In this three-part seminar, Dr Mauricio Cortina takes an overview of attachment theory in mental health. Part one takes a five-dimensional perspective to unpack the features of attachment theory as a new paradigm in the mental health field:
- Its extensive base of observation based on naturalistic and longitudinal studies
- Its ethological and evolutionary perspective
- Its presentation as new model of development that studies both normal (typical) and pathological development together, viewing normal outcomes as adaptive and flexible strategies, and pathological pathways as deviations from normal pathways.
- Its establishment as a relational theory; longitudinal studies have shown that outcomes are predicted by relational measures, not by any single characteristic of the child like temperament.
- A new multi-motivational model that looks at the set goals of each system together with conditions that activate or deactivate the system.
In Part two Dr Mauricio Cortina then explores some of the main strengths of attachment theory and examines the caveats on how attachment theory is sometimes misunderstood. Part three closes the lecture with an examination of a few of the important ways in which attachment theory informs the clinical dialogue with patients.
About the Speaker:
Dr Mauricio Cortina is a psychiatrist and psychotherapist with over 35 years of experience working in the Washington DC area. As well as his clinical practice, Dr Cortina is the Director of Attachment and Human Development Center, Washington School of Psychiatry, and President of Inter-American Attachment Network. He is author of a number of books, chapters and articles on subjects of attachment theory, intersubjectivity and humanistic approaches to psychotherapy including the books ‘Attachment Theory and the Psychoanalytic Process’ and ‘A Prophetic Analyst. Erich Fromm’s Contributions to Psychoanalysis’.