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Among our deepest and seemingly most natural aspirations is the longing to form stable, satisfying relationships: A lot of people are looking for roughly the same thing. But the painful fact is that very large howlby of relationships have one painful episode after another, or seemingly intractable miserable conflicts running through them; relationships feel like a struggle, rather than a support.
The huge — and not yet fully digested — insight of psychoanalysis is that the challenges of relationships do not start over dinner in an interesting restaurant or a college bar.
They start, in fact, when we are children. It was the contribution of the great psychoanalyst John Bowlby to trace the tensions and conflicts we have with our partners back to our early experience of maternal care.
His ideas are sound in part because he drew so deeply and honestly on his own experiences in order to formulate them. His father was a famous and highly successful doctor, with a knighthood and royal connections.
Young Bowlby hardly saw his parents and was looked after by a lovely nanny, Minnie. But Minnie was an employee, and when John was four, she was sent away. At seven, Bowlby went off — in line with the bolwby of his class — to boarding school, to a realm from which maternal warmth was rigorously excluded. Bowlby was a brilliant medical student and an imaginative researcher. In he made a film, A Two-Year-Old Goes to Hospitalwhich showed the suffering a child went through when they were institutionally separated from their parents.
In the wards mothers were not allowed to hold their sick children, for instance, for fear of spreading germs.
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Visiting times were punitively restricted. He attacked prevalent assumptions including those vigorously maintained by his own motherarguing that kindness does not smother and spoil children. And he asserted the importance to both child and mother of developing an biografiq and enjoyable relationship. This initiated a wave of reform: Bowlby poignantly invokes loving care that a little boy needs: The ideal parent is there when child needs it.
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They are good at actually listening to what the child is saying. They help the child work out for itself what it is feeling. The ideal parent is not anxiously hanging around trying to micromanage everything. Such a parent makes the child secure. Not just that the child feels secure at particular moments.
Parents — without meaning to let anyone down — go wrong in endless ways. Or they might be sweet and tender — but equally they might be angry or grumpy. They are around, then they disappear. They might be busy almost all the time, or very much preoccupied by work or social life. Their own fears, anxieties or troubles may keep them from providing the wise, generous attention the child needs. He described the behaviour of children he had observed who had been separated from their parents.
They went through three stages: The first phase began as soon as the parent left, and it would last between a few hours and a week. Protesting children would cry, roll around and react to any movement as the possibility of their mother returning. If something like this is frequently experienced, then the child craves the attention, love and interest of the parents but feels that anything good may disappear at any moment.
They bipgrafia for a lot of reassurance — and get upset if it is not forthcoming. But the degree of separation from the parents may be greater. To protect themselves they become remote and cold. They may, in truth, be desperate for a cuddle or for reassurance, but such things look far too treacherous.
They are life long. The pattern of relating that we develop in childhood gets deployed in our adult lives. Our attachment style is fed by early experiences: It all feels obvious and familiar even when it is uncomfortable. We take this with us, from partner to howlby. Secure attachment is the rare ideal. If there is a problem, you work it out. You are not appalled by the biogfafia of your partner. You can take it in your stride, because you can look after yourself when you have to.
You give the other the benefit of the doubt when interpreting behaviour. The explanations are accommodating, generous — biografua usually more accurate. You are slow to anger, quick to forgive and forget. Anxious attachment is marked by clinginess: Anxious attachment involves a lot of anger because the stakes feel very high.
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A minor slight, a hasty word, a tiny oversight can look — to the very anxious person — like huge threats. They seem to announce the imminent biobrafia of the whole relationship. Anxiously attached people feel they are always fighting for their lives. They often raise difficulties — and problems are brought up a lot, yet never resolved.
They tend to feel underappreciated — they are bitter. Avoidant attachment means that you would rather withdraw, and go away, than compromise, get angry or even just get close to the other person. Avoidant spouses often team up with anxious ones.
And the anxious one is always invading the delicate privacy of the avoidant one. Bowlby helps us towards more generous — and more constructive — ways of seeing what our partners are doing, when they upset or disappoint us.
Almost no one in truth is purely anxious or avoidant.
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They are biovrafia a bit like that, some of the time. They are protecting themselves out of fear. They deserve compassion, not a character assassination. And the thought may be that below the surface I respond not so much to a demand in the present as to a need from long ago, when I hoped that if only I performed well enough, I would secure the fleeting unreliable love of my parents.
Bowlby died in September biobrafia his early eighties, at his summer home on the Island of Skye. But it did happen, eventually. There was no single dramatic revolutionary moment. Many thousands of people changed their minds in small ways: The slow revolution took place at dinner tables and at school gates, at conferences in out of the way places and in careful cost-benefit analyses worked out by civil servants.
It is a process of social evolution in which there a few obvious heros and many necessary participants who can never know biografla what contribution they made: Jphn long it took in history for this need to be taken seriously — and so touching it should be by this particular man, whose family background, childhood, and education would be expected to close off such sympathetic insight.
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