The Faculty of Distance Learning at MSUPE, together with the Moscow Institute of Psychology, invites you to an online meeting on March 5 at 2:00 PM titled "Attachment and Autonomy – Two Basic Emotional Needs of a Person" as part of the seminar series Mutually Enriching Dialogues.
Host: Mikhail Mikhailovich Leonov, Candidate of Biological Sciences, Clinical Psychologist, Sexologist, Cognitive-Behavioral and Schema Therapist, Mentor of the program "Sexology in Psychological Counseling" at the Moscow Institute of Psychology.
Sigmund Freud was once asked: "How should a normal person live?" expecting a detailed and profound answer. But he uttered a short phrase: "To love and to work." And now our contemporary, the German psychologist and schema therapist Eckhard Rödiger, has expanded this idea and described it in the form of a model of two basic emotional needs – the need for attachment and the need for autonomy.
Essentially, the need for attachment is the need to love. And the need for autonomy is the need to work. Of course, Rödiger didn't invent the wheel here; he simply summarized what was done before him. Primarily by scientists such as John Bowlby, Phillip Shaver, Jeffrey Young, and others. But he described this model in a way that is very convenient to use, and it is very understandable and simple for our clients, which is extremely important for practicing specialists. This model is known as the "Blue and Red Foot" model, and today it has a solid scientific basis not only in the field of psychology but also in neurobiology.