Attachment, Neurobiology and the New Science of Psychotherapy - Professor Jeremy Holmes
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Covid-19 vaccines are delivered on a variety of ‘platforms’, traditional and innovative - all aiming at a common underlying mechanism of protection, i.e. stimulating the development of anti-spike-protein antibodies and T-cell activation. Similarly, scholars have tried to delineate the common factors which underpin the 570 (and counting) varieties of psychotherapy, many of which, as the ‘dodo-bird verdict’ suggests, can be highly effective, but none consistently demonstrably more so than another.
I shall argue that attachment theory and Friston’s Free Energy Principle provide an evidence base, rationale, and theoretical framework for understanding the transmutative power of psychotherapies. In the ‘duet for one’ and built-in ambiguities of the psychotherapeutic relationship, these include enhanced ‘granularity’ of entero- and extero-perceptions, an expanded range of ’top-down’ generative models, and facilitated agency by which outdated models and repressed feelings can be revised and transcended. The result is greater flexibility, range of choices, and resilience.
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For 35 years, Professor Holmes was Consultant Psychiatrist and Medical Psychotherapist at University College London and then in North Devon, and Chair of the Psychotherapy Faculty of the Royal College of Psychiatrists from 1998 until 2002. He is visiting Professor at the University of Exeter, and lectures nationally and internationally. In addition to 200+ peer-reviewed papers and chapters in the field of psychoanalysis and attachment theory, his books include John Bowlby and Attachment Theory, The Oxford Textbook of Psychotherapy, Exploring In Security, The Therapeutic Imagination, Attachment in Therapeutic Practice, and most recently: “The Brain has a Mind of Its Own”.
Professor Holmes received the Bowlby-Ainsworth Founders Award in 2009. In his spare time, he enjoys making music, gardening, engaging in green politics, and spending time with his grandchildren.
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In medicine we were taught the eyes cannot see what the mind does not know . This was to motivate to read and remember ( know ) more in order to recognise patterns of ill-health
Very helpful insights ..thanks
I think when he's talking about the father he is describing avoidance and how that is still better than disorganization. Distracting someone from distress is still better than shaming or scaring them. It does allow for some proximity, whereas a fear inducing response (or no response at all) does not. "You can do it" refers to exploration... and compulsive caretaking is when a parent is so consumed with their own distress that they are not available to encourage the child. Or the parent so afraid to be alone (ambivalence) that they keep the child close, which limits exploration and growth - the child learns to put others before the self. Where as the father, by not offering comfort or soothing touch, implicitly communicates that we sooth through distance and distraction aka exploration - which leads to an emphasis of self over other, or an orientation towards performance and auto regulation rather than co regulation of affect (which is the most efficient).
The bell was distracting
😊 Ty
Does anyone grasp what he means by "niches"? I think he's talking about being understood - co created reality. Like, if I can be understood by you, then I can understand me, and the more I make sense to me, the more secure I can be. Like he says about the baby crying who doesn't understand their own experience or distress. Is that what he's trying to say about the niche? That we can understand each other and therefore be less alone and more secure?
But to unlearn knowing and being with the client as is now and to provide the corrective emotional therapeutic experiences is indeed another paradigm biomedical vs pyschological paradigm is different and needs better integration to be effective
59:16 this is a misattribution actually that the reason Frankl went to Auschwitz was due to secure attachment. In his book he himself makes it quite clear that he chose to not flee Europe and remain with his parents not because of attachment per se but primarily due to his faith. His father brought home a smashed tablet of the Ten Commandments and he took that as a sign, almost numinous, to honour his mother and father. The book is full of spiritual experiences that pulled the survivors through the horrors of the Third Reich’s regime. It was his faith that influenced him going into the death camps not his attachment although that also is significant but not the cause of his behaviour as you claim
@trueUncleJunior
6 ай бұрын
God is attachment figure
@lgfish5337
Ай бұрын
@davidclarke9215 thank you for adding this insight .. I found that example to be a bit confusing ..still do really , in spite.of this additional knowledge about frankle's experience .. seemingly the example was meant to de-pathologize or place insecure on sort of neutral footing alongside secure and say either could be adaptive .. but if insecure is only useful during a decision to take risks more readily with ones life, it just doesn't make the most compelling case. Further no doubt many securely attached people where given the same horrible options and chose/were able to flee..
SAVING! till I can take advantage of this. Thank you. 28 yrs married to an ivisably deeply disordered imposter, doomed to never meet himself. Sad
its been a long time since ive seen such a low quality video on youtube. even shitposts mostly have better quality!
@tonyburton419
2 жыл бұрын
A long time since I've read such a ridiculous comment. The information and content in what is conveyed here are what matters. Clearly, there must be something wrong with you? A troll..a lot of them about?.
@drsandhyathumsikumar4479
2 жыл бұрын
You have missed the point and responded to a trivial issue .I guess you have no clue about what is significance of this discussion
@tonyburton419
2 жыл бұрын
@@drsandhyathumsikumar4479 So much more polite than me!
@micheller3731
2 жыл бұрын
Maybe you need to read up on the basics of Attachment Theory then come back here.
Sniffing? ffs