A Relational Metacognitive Approach to Attachment in Psychotherapy
Apego y Terapia Cognitivo Analítica
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https://doi.org/10.5944/rdp.v36i130.44128Keywords:
Attachment, Metacognition, Cognitive-analytic psychotherapy, Reflective function, Mindfulness, MentalizationAbstract
In this article I address the need for meta-observation to recognize the relevant aspects of who we are, our relationships, their history and their future. An approach based on the early stages of development through attachment with significant figures, which requires for its clinical work a link between mindfulness, reflective function and an adequate mapping of interpersonal relationship patterns. The optimization of metacognitive skills, the use of mindfulness and interventions aimed at increasing reflective function are the theoretical scaffolding of the model I propose. The compass for mental and contextual navigation, I call it: process of relational and contextual self- and hetero-observation (PAHORC). The identification of attachment styles opens the door to the description of reciprocal relational dyads, which allow us to understand the variability of relational models with different people and in different contexts. The perspective of the multiplicity of the Self and a dialogic approach facilitates working with these relational patterns. This will allow to restore those damages suffered in the early stages of development and to reconstruct more satisfactory and adaptive relational models. Therefore, this is a metatheoretical, theoretical and technical article, based on an integrative perspective inspired by the extended cognitive analytical model that I have been developing over the last few years. I will mention innovative developments that are taking place recently and integrate in an assimilative way the contributions of other models.
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