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Mary
Ah, right. She’ll be in England.
Bill
And Heidi’s apologies.
Kelly
Frances.
Judi
And Frances is presenting.
Mary
And Nancy.
Bill
So Frances, Tom … Nancy.
Paula
I’ve been aware of my … (inaudible)
about being away a lot this term. I was
away last week and I am really noticing
my kind of ambivalence. I was wondering
about it, and I was thinking about the third
hour and the way that makes it harder. It
makes it more … um … I don’t know, I
probably need to talk about it in the third
hour, but it’s something about what
happens for me there makes it sometimes
harder to connect here, you know, do you
know what I mean?
Mary
Mmm. Mmm. I’ve felt it’s been really
disjointed. But I notice that more in the
third … than I suppose … different people
Paula
That’s right. And I’m not saying it’s not
valuable and stuff, but I’ve felt it …
‘cause I’m normally this really kind of …
Chapter Five - A Beginning – Page 150
Incredible, isn’t it!
Heidi and Veronica absent. Paula, Kelly,
Mary, and Ron present (only 3 of them at
the start).
A very important opening up from here on
down. (Here I’m signalling the importance
of what follows, recognising both from
being present and witnessing what happens
subsequently, but also from clinical
experience, that this is a significant
disclosure). This is clear from the timing,
the manner of the utterance, and aspects of
the topic (such as the Third Hour, available
for personal reflection on the otherwise
less conscious aspects of experience)
Disjointed, tails off. Indicative of
disordered attachment? (See above and
also below. Regarding disordered
attachment, I am drawing on the finding
(Main and Solomon, 1986) from
interviewing adults about their attachment
experiences in childhood that those with
disorganized attachment patterns in infancy