Research:
Do people have different experiences in the Bonding-Therapie (NIP) depending to their attachment style?
Theorie:
Being near each other through the bonding exercise evokes the personal patterns of attachment (experiential confrontation).
Hypothesis:
people with a mainly fearful pattern of attachment take more profit of the Bonding-Therapie than people with a mainly preoccupied pattern: the inner working model changes faster and more close to a secure representation.
(brought up by results from an evaluation of some workshops with Bonding-Therapie - Mestel, 1999)
Points of Research:
- subjective estimated aid by the bonding sequences
- the personal themes of each person while bonding
- are there special basic needs according to the attachment style that were evoked while the bonding?
- the personal difficulties with the setting of the Bonding-Therapie
- Did all participants experience an emotional process at the "gut level"?
- Did all clients keep a part of their consciousness in the present while bonding?
Was it possible for the therapists to reach them all time?
- How far did everybody enjoy the closeness to the bonding partner and experienced him as a secure base?
Methods:
Part A: diagnostic data to describe the sample (done by the admission):
- OPD-Interview (level of personality structure + conflicts)
- BSS ( Schepank, 1995, Score of the degree being impaired physically, psychic and in social communication
- RQ2 (Bartholomew & Horowitz, 1991, Relationship Questionnaire)
Part B: assignment to the 4 attachment styles :
BPF (Mestel, 1998, structured interview about the attachment style in relationships, 19 Questions)
Part C: inquiry about the subjective experiences during the Bonding-Therapie:
structured interview (11 questions)
Description of the Sample:
- 11 patients of the "Klinik für Psychosomatische Medizin" in Bad Grönenbach who all have problems with addiction as part of their clinical diagnosis; as second diagnosis there is often a depression.
- The participants of the research took part at bonding sessions in average 4.5 times.
- the age was from 25 to 48 years, in average 35 years
- gender: 7 women & 4 men
- the BSS-score shows for 7 persons a quite hard and for 2 persons a very hard disorder especially on the psychic and social-communicative level
- the assignment to the 4 attachment styles with the BPF shows 3 people of the sample as preoccupied, 6 as fearful and 2 as a mixture of those both types. Unfortunately there is a lack of people with a dismissing or a secure pattern.
- personality structure: 5 people with moderate, 4 with minor moderate, 1 with good moderate, 1 with better low and 1 with just low structure
