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The Neufeld Scientific Research Centre

Attachment and Maturation

How maturation is gestated:

  • Maslow, A. (1968). Toward a Psychology of Being, (1st edition, 1962; 2nd edition, 1968)
  • Rogers, C. (1995). On Becoming A Person. Houghton Mifflin, New York.
  • Bowlby, J. (1988). A Secure Base: Parent-Child Attachment and Healthy Human Development. Tavistock professional book. London: Routledge.

The assumption that rest and satiation are the keys to the fruitfulness of attachment:

  • Bowlby, J. (1988). A Secure Base: Parent-Child Attachment and Healthy Human Development. Tavistock professional book. London: Routledge.
  • Maslow, A. (1968). Toward a Psychology of Being, (1st edition, 1962; 2nd edition, 1968).

About connected with attachment conditions conducive for maturation process:

  • Bowlby, J. (1988). A Secure Base: Parent-Child Attachment and Healthy Human Development. Tavistock professional book. London: Routledge
  • Rogers, C. (1995). On Becoming A Person. New York: Houghton Mifflin.
  • Gopnik, A. (2016). The Gardener and the Carpenter: What the new science of child development tells us about the relationship between parents and children. New York, USA: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
  • MacNamara, D. (2016). Rest, play, grow: Making sense of preschoolers (Or anyone who acts like one). Vancouver, Canada: Aona Books. 
  • Roehlkepartain, E. C., Pekel, K., Syvertsen, A. K., Sethi, J., Sullivan, T. K., & Scales, P. C. (2017). Relationships First: Creating connections that help young people thrive. Minneapolis, MN, USA: Search Institute.
  • Schuengel, C. (2012). Teacher–child relationships as a developmental issue. Attachment & Human Development, 14(3), 329–336.  
  • Fonagy, P., Luyten, P. (2009). A developmental, mentalisation-based approach to the understanding and treatment of borderline personality disorder. Development and Psychopathology, 21 (4), 1355-1381. (Creating a secure attachment also conditions the development of mentalizing skills – the ability to reflect and understand your own state of mind, insight into what you are feeling and why; mentalizing is seen as very important in the context of emotional regulation).
  • Panfilem, T., M. & Laible, D.J. (2012). Attachment Security and Child’s Empathy: The Mediating Role of Emotion Regulation. Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, Volume 58, Number 1, January 2012, pp. 1-21. (“The  results  support  the  notion  that  more-secure  children  are  more  empathic because they are better emotion regulators.”)

 

The structure and mental functions developing in the first years of a child’s life are the foundations of the later establishing close relationships in adulthood.

  • Schore, A.N. (2009a). Attachment trauma and the developing right brain: Origins of pathological dissociation. W. PF. Dell, J.A. O’Neil (ed.). Dissociation and the dissociative disorders. DSM-V and beyond (pp. 107-145). New York: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group.
  • Liotti, G. (2004). Trauma, dissociation, and disorganized attachment: Thress strands of a single braid. Psychotherapy. Theory, Research, Practice, Training, 41 (4), 472-486.
  • Allen, J.G., Fonagy, P., Bateman, A. (2014). Mentalizing in clinical practice, translated by M. Cierpisz Krakow: Jagiellonian University Press.

 

The main caregiver’s ability to be empathetic is relevant in the context of reflecting the values important to the child and is a precursor of independence in the future.

  • Kohut, H. (1977). The restoration of the self. University of Chicago Press.