“Bowlby writes that the aim of psychotherapy with “false self” individuals is: “To provide, by being ourselves, the conditions in which a patient of this kind can discover and recover what Winnicott calls his real self, and I call his attachment desires and feelings””


“Expressing the central importance of mentalising to attachment-informed therapy, Holmes and Slade point out that:
“Mentalising represents alexithymia’s antithesis: the capacity to transform primitive impulses into feelings, and to represent, symbolise, sublimate, abstract, reflect, and make meaning of them” (2017, p. 68).”
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