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The Internal World and Attachment (Paperback)
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The Internal World and Attachment (Paperback)
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How, asks Geoff Goodman in The Internal World and Attachment, can
we progress further in integrating the fruits of attachment
research with the accumulated clinical wisdom of psychoanalytic
theorizing about the internal world of object representations? The
key, he answers, is to look more closely at the basic assumptions
of each body of theory, especially those assumptions, whether
embedded or explicit, that bear on the formation of psychic
structure. Drawing on Kernberg's insights into the affective and
instinctual substrata of psychic organizations, Goodman proposes
that insecure attachment categories can be correlated with
particular constellations of self and object representations. Such
convergences provide a springboard to further theoretical
explanations, most especially to the relations between attachment
and adult sexual behavior. Indeed, one outstanding feature of
Goodman's proposals is the light they cast on various forms and
meanings of sexual psychopathology, as he delineates how both
promiscuity and retreats from sexual intimacy can be differentially
interpreted depending on the patient's pattern of attachment.
Destined to provoke lively debate, The Internal World and
Attachment is a powerfully informative attempt to go beyond the
researcher's view of attachment as a motivational system. For
Goodman, attachment is informed by an internal logic that reflects
fantasies and defense, and an appreciation of the interaction of
attachment pattern with various constellations of self and object
representations can deepen our understanding of the internal world
in clinically consequential ways. Keeping his eye resolutely on the
clinical texture of attachment observations and the clinical
phenomenology expressive of internal object relations, Goodman
provides the reader with an experience-near basis for viewing two
influential bodies of knowledge as complementary avenues for
apprehending the internal meaning of externally observable
behavior.
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