Review The end of abuse: A playreading in three parts

摘要

This event, billed as a scientific meeting of the Psychotherapy Section of the British Psychological Society, was staged in collaboration with the UK Section of the International Attachment Network Angela Douglas of IAN chaired the discussion and Tirril Harris, also of IAN, gave a brief presentation setting the play within the context of attachment theory Video copies of the playreading, copies of the script (published by Open Gate Press, London) and a compilation of clinical commentaries on it were on sale in the foyer: I have re-read the script, but intentionally not read the commentaries, and any interpretations I make will be in terms of my own relating theory (Birtchnell, 2002), for it continues to concern me that attachment theory places greater emphasis on closeness than on distance, and is not concerned with whether relating is from above or from below (Birtchnell, 1997).