Danica San Juan, LMSW-C

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Trauma not only inflicts mental harm but inhibits the mentalising that is integral to recovery. The role of attachment-informed therapy is to counteract that process in vivo through the therapeutic relationship. But there is a caveat. Faced with acute danger, mentalising can be disadvantageous. About to be eaten by a lion, one doesn’t want to spend too much time imagining what’s going on in the feline’s mind. Mentalising is inherently ‘slow’; arousal activates fast thinking and inhibits mentalising (cf. Kahneman, 2011).
Attachment in Therapeutic Practice
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