One of the other things #InterpersonalNeurobiology helps me understand is how #ObjectRelations is not an abstraction, no metaphor, but the the recreation, though the mirror neuron system, of implicit intentionality felt in relationship. An almost literal pairing of vital energy, collected and replayed in response to an emotionally significant other.

I'm a huge fan of #InterpersonalNeurobiology (Siegel, Badenoch, Stanley, Schore et al). It has been _the_ integrating factor in #psychotherapy for me.

The model which tells me how #ObjectRelations and #CoreConditions join up, how #AttachmentTheory and #Existential concerns interrelate, and why cognition based approaches only scratch the surface while transference is real and embodied.

I think I'll get around to some more posts at some point, on how IB can bridge all these.

"There is bad blood between psychoanalysis and attachment theory" but at the same time, "Attachment theory is almost unique among psychoanalytic theories in bridging the gap between general psychology and clinical psychodynamic theory".

'Attachment Theory and Psychoanalysis' by Peter Fonagy is so comprehensive in covering the huge overlap but also differences between the two.

#books #psychoanalysis #attachment #psychology #objectrelations #development