Attachment and knowledge: between obsessive-compulsive personality disorder and obsessive syndrome

Abstract

The Authors sustain that the growth of knowldge always occurs through conjecture and refutation and that the development of a cognitive system is oriented towards the maximizing of its own predictive capacity. In this process, the Attachment figure plays a decisive role consisting in co-determining the specific way to reconstrue the invalidating event. The “specific way” is the style of knowledge of the sytem and determine the type of personality. Pattern and attachment, style of knowledge, personality and psycopathological trait are correlate. The D.O.C. presents a caracteristic style of Knowledge defined: “Avoidance”, like the personality disorders of the Anxiety cluster, related with Insecure Resitant Attachment.