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Dr Shock MD PhD
The attachment theory from the sixties of the previous century is still used e.g. in psychotherapy but also in research such as shown in a recent post on:How do social relationships function online. Is attachment theory also useful in medical education, does it explain the poor performance by some doctors? After all doctors are required to engage attachment relationships with their patients. It’s part of their job. In professional health care the relationship as caregiver is part of the working relationship.
This interesting question whether attachment theory is useful in medical education and poor performing doctors when under stress is discussed in a recent article and commentaries in Medical Education. The article is a review of published studies and texts about attachment theory and caregivers.
For a more extensive review of the different attachment styles read this post. In this article a distinction is made between positive and negative attachment styles. In normal populations, 58% of individuals are securely attached and 42% insecurely. Those with insecure attachment styles experience attachment past and present in a less positive way. They find attachment relationships stressful, they’re anxious and defensive about negative emotions. They either dismiss these negative emotions or are occupied with them leading to ambivalence between seeing the other as wonderful or dreadful.
The insecure group (42%) are divided into a dismissing …