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• W310020728 abstract "ABSTRACT: The author's doctoral dissertation, Malattachment and the Self Struggle, offers an in-depth portrait of intergenerational attachment disruption, its relationship to depression and personality disorders, and approaches to healing-all within the context of the narrative of Pearl, for whom mothering tears her open, then urges her to wholeness. This excerpt features an explanation of the effects and implications of an attuned attachment relationship between infant and caregiver, casting it as critical developmental nourishment and terming its corruption malattachment; the importance of the caregiver's own self-narrative; a discussion of the unconscious implicit learning and memory processes that engrave lifelong relational patterns in the growing child; a portrayal of personality disorders as the self struggle-adaptive survival strategies forged in the face of thwarted attachment; and the seldom-explored notion of energetic abandonment. These theoretical discussions are set against the relief of Pearl's suffering the dual cut of the wounded-mother knife: the agony of her own parched capacity to mother her son, and the painful awakening of her own long-dormant malattachment wounds. KEY WORDS: attachment; malattachment; relational trauma; postpartum depression; mothering; brain development; neurobiology; personality disorders; narcissism; borderline; depression; narrative INTRODUCTION The following is excerpted from a collection of contextual essays that accompany a novel (one essay per novel chapter) which together comprised my doctoral dissertation. The novel is a fictional memoir, a deep narrative exploration into the experience of a woman brought to her existential knees by the relational demands of motherhood, called to confront her own painful family history of loss and separation and to chart a course of healing. As the protagonist Pearl McEvoy struggles to break the cycle of abandonment that is her legacy, the reader is invited along as intimate witness to her revolutionary journey of awakening. The companion essays synthesize and extend leading-edge research into the central developmental themes raised in Pearl's story, such as attachment, separation and relational trauma; narcissism, borderline, and other defensive personality styles; and depression, all within the developmental contexts of adoption, marriage, and motherhood. Pearl is a thirty-something, relatively affluent, well-educated woman who says know I have the perfect life-I just can't feel my life.1 She is slipping through the cracks of her eroding persona as the pumice of her son's raw, baby neediness keeps working away at her lifelong fortress of psychic defenses. She is coming undone to have the chance to be remade, to reconstruct herself in the image of wholeness and health. On the one hand Pearl's situation is far more common than clinical statistics would suggest (NIH, 2002), and on the other, she could be diagnosed with, and pursue conventional treatment for, any of a handful of currently popular DSM-IV differentials. Postpartum depression, dysphoria, narcissistic personality disorder, and even attachment disorder present as themes in her behavior and personality. However, Pearl charts a healing journey that is distinguished by an orientation of integration and holism to dis-eases of the psyche, rather than the fragmentation and reductionism so prevalent in therapeutic settings today. In the contextual essays is developed the view of the above diagnoses not as the discrete psychosocial malfunctions into which our predominant reductionist mental health model atomizes them, but rather as a coordinated suite of adaptive survival strategies, developed staggeringly early in the life of this individual. The Revolution in Attachment Theory It is just in the past five to ten years that researchers have discovered the stunning details behind the pervasive, lifelong implications of the attachment relationship that Bowlby began studying in the 50s (Bowlby, 1973; Hrdy, 1999). …" @default.
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