@article{ref1,
title="Changing internal representations of self and other: philosophical tools for the attachment-informed psychotherapy with perpetrators and victims of violence",
journal="Philosophy, psychiatry, and psychology",
year="2017",
author="Pârvan, Alexandra",
volume="24",
number="3",
pages="241-255",
abstract="Attachment research shows that the formation of unconscious, insecure representations of the self, the other, and the self-other relations is linked to perpetration and receipt of violence. Attachment-focused therapy aims to change these internal schemata to more secure, adaptive representations by therapeutic work addressed to senses, emotions, and behavior. The paper proposes a new approach to altering the self and other representations in offenders and victims: it involves intellectual reflection on self, will, action and responsibility informed by Augustine's views, facilitated by actual relational experience, and translated into a distinct self-soothing strategy. The reflective-experiential approach can complement existing methods of working with violent or traumatized individuals both within and outside an attachment theory framework. It consists in: identifying that a non-reflective nondistinction between self and behavior supports damaging self- and other- representations and interactions; proposing ways for clients to comprehend and consciously operate with the distinction between self and action.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1071-6076",
doi="10.1353/ppp.2017.0034",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/ppp.2017.0034"
}