HDFS 1060 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Luigi Sabatelli, Donald Winnicott, Individuation
29 Mar 2017
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Broad issues and concerns that must be addressed by all models/views on family. Must address what we will take as evidence that the family has problems. Must address why some individuals are impacted more than others (functional for whom?) Must address how patterns of functioning are transmitted over time. Must account in some way for different types and degrees of developmental impairment. Bowen and intergenerational perspectives on family functioning: it exists on a continuum, optimal on one end and impaired on the other end. All psychoanalytic developmental theorists say that your emotional health and well being is a function of how much anxiety you are exposed to in your developmental environment. Having too much anxiety from your environment impairs your development. Theorists, just differ on where they believe that anxiety comes from. Bowen believes anxiety comes from patterns and dynamics from inside the family. Mattering - we all have a need for mattering.
