Brian Cobb – Attachment Repair

Brief Ideal Parent Figure Protocol Meditation for Disorganized Attachment

Post author:Brian Cobb
Post published:August 8, 2023
Reading time:2 mins read

“Attachment Disturbances in Adults: Treatment for Comprehensive Repair” by Daniel Brown et al., & Ideal Parent Figure Protocol for a Disorganized Adult Client

Guided visualization meditation treatment

The guided visualization process developed by Brown et al. to help heal the insecure “Internal Working Model of Attachment” (IWMA) is the “Ideal Parent Figure Protocol” (IPF) (2016). The Ideal Parents (IPF’s) shouldn’t be based on your actual parents, rather someone who you know who seem perfect to you (a loving movie star or a saint etc) (Brown, et al, 2016).

How Do I Embody Secure Attachment?

Post author:Brian Cobb
Post published:November 29, 2022
Reading time:2 mins read
Healing Modalities:
Attachment Theoryi
Schema Therapyi

Can you expect to have relationships with someone who has Secure Attachment when you don’t?

Maybe or maybe not. But surely it’s easier to find a secure partner and even secure friends when you yourself have Secure Attachment.

But then how do you develop Earned Secure Attachment if you don’t have it?

Well first off let’s map out what secure attachment looks like in adults.

Then we’ll discuss how you get it.

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