Debbie, that’s also interesting what you said, I was under the impression that there is no such thing as a pure attachment modality because it’s attachment theory rather than attachment therapy. I always assumed that the Bowlby Centre trains Ts in the psychoanalytic approach but with a primary grounding in attachment theory. (The one and only attachment based T in my area was Bowlby Centre trained, and he was a psychoanalytic psychotherapist.) But I do make a lot of assumptions so it’s interesting to know that there is now an actual modality of pure attachment therapy.
Interesting results in the poll so far, for some reason I thought those of us with psychoTs were few and far between, so I’m surprised at the numbers already.
Oh seeing as how I’m here and posting – I’m seeing a psychoanalytic psychotherapist, which in terms of approach really suits me (having tried therapists in every single modality on my list except DBT and Systemic/family systems therapy
) I know the general consensus is that it’s the relationship between T and client that’s the important thing rather than the specific approach, but I’m going to be the lone voice in the wilderness here and say that for me at least, it’s the opposite. Lol but that could change too… (Oh I just reread your reply properly Debbie and see that you too chose a specific approach, so maybe that's two lone voices in the wilderness eh?
) LL