Thanatology 2200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Thanatology, Attachment Theory, Ethology

• School: Western University
• Department: Thanatology
• Course: Thanatology 2200
• Professor: Eunice Gorman

Document Summary

Introjection: taking on aspect of someone into our lives, adopting their way of viewing us or the world as our own view. Identification: acting, thinking, behaving in ways that resemble someone else. Ethological: something that is seen as instinctual or preprogrammed. In the process of growing up we form attachments w/ people who satisfy our physical and emotional needs. Attachment: instinctual bond that exists in significant relationships. It is encouraged by attachment behaviours that serve the purpose of protecting the individual from harm/survival. Attachment behaviours: maintaining proximity w/ caregiver, ensures best change for survival & safety, protest when there is a separation or broken attachment bond. ** grief is this protest, if we scream loud enough maybe the person will return. This grief is seen as primitive or instinctual. *** these cries of separation are similar to grief behaviors ex) protest, yearning, searching, disorganization and despair.