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Title: What's LOVE Got to do with it? Love, Creativity and Mental Health


1
What's LOVE Got to do with it? Love, Creativity
and Mental Health
  • The psychology of Love, attachment and the use of
    Creativity. (Key Note Lecture)
  • By Divine Charura
  • (Psychotherapist and Lecturer)
  • Annual Conference of Psychological Therapies
    Leeds Metropolitan University 2011

2
How we will look at Love?
  • Attachment Love styles.
  • Impact of Love on the Family system.
  • Impact of love on the brain/mental health and
    issues in Therapy.
  • Impact of creativity.

3
Quotes on Love
  • Love is the irresistible desire to be
    irresistibly desired." - Mark Twain
  • Love is patient , love is Kind God is Love
    (Bible)
  • If there had been no love.The world would have
    not existed. (Traditional Dalmatian song)
  • All you need is love.John Lennon Paul
    McCartney

4
Love exists in many cultures, faiths,
Philosophies and religions.
  • Many studies have concluded that Love exists in
    every culture.
  • Is there anyone who has never heard of the word
    or the concept of Love?

5
Research Studies highlighting importance of Love
and attachment.
  • Early 1900's, Of 10,272 children admitted to the
    Dublin Foundling home during a single 25 year
    period, only 45 survived (Joseph 1999).
  • R.A. Spitz, (1952) studied institutionalised
    Children- display low intelligence, extreme
    passivity, attention deficits.
  • Romanian orphansvirtual black-hole
    orbitofrontal cortex (Chugani et al 2001).

6
Love Conceptualized as an Attachment Process
throughout life.
  • The concept of "attachment", referring to a
    continuous tie to a specific person that the
    child turns to when feeling vulnerable and in
    need of protection (Bowlby 1951)
  • In Adults - throughout life may manifest as
    separation anxiety, grief experiences and
    mourning.

7
Emotional development Attachment and Development
of Love
  • Margaret Ainsworth's (1963) "Strange Situation"
    study.
  • Margaret Ainsworth's John Bowlby (1991) - A
    neglectful, stressed or inconsistent parent gave
    the kind of care which tended to lead to anxious,
    insecure or avoidant children.
  • Further studies showed prediction attachment
    pattern of children aged 5 and 8.

8
Why Love matters Parent-Child Attachment
Perspective - Sue Gerhardt
  • Earliest relationship shapes the baby's nervous
    system, with lasting consequences (2004).
  • Development of the brain can affect future
    emotional well being.
  • Distress at 4 months old behaviour at 1 and 5
    years old predicted.

9
Attachment theories- Melanie Klein Love, Guilt,
and Reparation (1921-1945)
  • "... The power of love - which is the
    manifestation of the forces which tend to
    preserve life - is there in the baby as well as
    the destructive impulses, ..
  • Love is central to child development.

10
Theories of Love as attachment
  • Secure attachment
  • Anxious Ambivalent
  • Avoidant attachment
  • Attachment theory has been criticised for nature
    of experiments and by feminists.
  • Focus is on what then are an alternative theories
    of Love?

11
Love Styles- Greek Philosophy andColours of Love
(J.A Lee 1973)
  • Agápe - Brotherly love
  • Éros - Passionate love, with sensual desire
  • Philía - Love between family
  • Storge- Friendship
  • Ludus- Game playing love ( Playful Interactions
    Uncommitted Love)
  • Mania (Eros Ludos) Jealousy Dependency
  • Pragma (Storge Ludos) Realistic and
    practical Love

12
Robert Sternbergs duplex theory of love (1986).
  • Liking
  • Intimacy
  • Romantic Love
    Companionate
  • Passion Intimacy
    Intimacy commitment
  • Infatuation Fatuous Love Empty
    Love
  • Passion Passion Commitment
    Commitment

CONSUMMATE LOVE INTIMACY PASSION - COMMITMENT
13
Do we learn about Love in our primary family
system?
  • I propose that concepts of Love Begins in the
    family.
  • What is a family?
  • AFT takes 'family' to mean any group of people
    who define themselves as such, who care about and
    care for each other (AFT 2011).

14
Difference and Diversity in family processes and
Love
  • The Jones Family

Jane 47
Sue 50
James 56
Paris 7
Malcom 16
15
In my family I learnt that I should Love you
with my whole heart..
  • Well actually I Love you with my whole
    Brain.and all the chemicals in it make me love
    you moreOR hate you.
  • Its all to do with Brain Biology.

16
Impact on the Brain
  • Differences in brainstem and limbic forebrain
  • If reared in an abnormal, deprived environment,
    the limbic system nuclei will atrophy, or neural
    pathways will develop abnormally.
  • Brain Neurochemistry

17
Cortisol, Love and the brain
  • Cortisol is a Hormone produced in the
    hypothalamus responsible for homeostasis, emotion
    motor function.
  • Regulation of Cortisol is experience dependent.
  • Too much is linked to depression and fearfulness
    too little to emotional detachment and aggression.

18
What's Love got to do with it?
  • Our own personal lives
  • Children
  • Death bereavement and loss
  • Couples, families or individuals we meet everyday
    in therapy
  • Psychological adjustment M. health

19
What's Love got to do with it?

20
Conditions of worth and conditional positive
regard- Carl Rogers 1959
  • Conditional positive regard.
  • Alienated from our true selves.
  • Incongruence between the perceived self and ideal
    self maladjustment.
  • Our Work and Love? i.e Therapy, Chaplaincy,
    Psychoanalysis?

21
Psychoanalysis and Love
  • At base Psychoanalysis is , a cure through Love
    (Letter to Jung , 6 December 1906).
  • Our treatments are treatments of LoveViennese
    psychoanalytic Society on psychoanalytic
    treatment.

22
Love Creativity?
  • Research shows that in all therapeutic
    relationships what is helpful is
  • The relationship Love?
  • (Haugh and Paul 2008)
  • Only one way to Love Creativity

23
Forms of creativity
  • Exploring a narrative
  • Biographical work (photos, letters..)
  • Invocatory work- using an object to represent
    meaning.
  • Radical group work
  • Art, dance, music
  • Complementary therapy
  • In whatever we do we can be creative

24
Impact of Creativity on Continual development of
The Limbic System
The right side is more visual and processes
intuitively, holistically, and randomly
Left side of the brain is active in language and
processes in a logical and sequential order.
  • Love and Creativity stimulates both sides
  • Formation of New Nerves.
  • Better mental health?

25
To love and be creative or not to Love thats the
question?
  • Attachment Love styles
  • Impact of Love on the Family system
  • Impact of love on the brain and mental health and
    issues in Therapy.
  • Impact of creativity
  • Above all I wish you true Love
  • Thank you
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