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• Archive: Topic Areas:Couples Therapy | Attachment | WorkshopCategory:Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2016Faculty:Terry Real, LICSWDuration:01:57:43Format:Audio OnlyOriginal Program Date :May 15, 2016 Description Description: Attachment theory posits, along with those healthy ones, the ‘securely attached,” two important types of troubled groups—those with “anxious,” and “avoidant,” attachment styles.
• Said in plain English, this amounts to pursuers and distancers.
• But the pursuer/distancer dynamic has been a central concern to couples and family therapy since it’s inception in the nineteen-fifties.
• This workshop will look at some of the many ways this dynamic has been thought of and treated—from recursive feedback loops, to “love addiction/love avoidance,” to attachment styles and beyond.
• Participants will learn how to factor in—along with the boundary issue of distance and closeness—the element of self-esteem, looking at the difference, for example, between a one-down, shame-based pursuer and a oneup, grandiose pursuer.