Quoting Allen Esterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> > >Third, how does one teach about the ever-popular 
> > >Attachment theory without developing an understanding
> > >of psychoanalytic theories?

> I fear my query may have been misunderstood (I can't think why!). I'm
> genuinely interested to know the answer.
> 

Allen:

I think your original posting is lost in the a morass of responses to related 
(or unrelated) issues.

If your original question was about attachment theory, then at least the only 
time I teach anything about that is in intro psych and I don't cover it at all 
as related to psychoanalytic theory. Instead, I take the approach that someone 
else mentioned I believe, dealing with the relationships between temperament 
and attachment and parenting styles. Ultimately this approach is very 
superficial, as needs be sometimes when teaching for breadth in the intro 
course so it's not an unusual problem. But it also eliminates the need for any 
protracted discussion of psychoanalytic interpretations of attachment.

Annette

Annette Kujawski Taylor, Ph. D.
Department of Psychology
University of San Diego 
5998 Alcala Park
San Diego, CA 92110
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