The Implicit Realm in Couples Therapy: Improving Right Hemisphere Affect-Regulating Capabilities |
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Authors: | Francine Lapides |
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Institution: | (1) 474 Fall Creek Dr., Felton, CA 95018, USA |
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Abstract: | Attachment theory, viewed through the lens of neurobiology, explains how infants learn, through unconscious, rapid, non-verbal
interactions with caretaking adults, to successfully manage their own emotional energy. These neurological affect-regulating
mechanisms formed in early childhood shape later-forming attachment relationships, including those of adult romantic dyads
which depend, for intimacy and stability, on the same right brain, nonverbal, modulating capacities. Psychoanalytic researchers
have identified healing, implicit, unconscious psychobiological mechanisms, other than verbal insight, explanation and interpretation
that can be learned remedially in couples’ therapy. This paper examines an implicit, emotion-focused approach to couples’
work that brings unconscious affect center stage. |
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