ABSTRACT
In the Boston Change Process Study Group's paper, "The foundational level of psychodynamic meaning: implicit process in relation to conflict, defense, and the dynamic unconscious". In that paper the authors wrote: Relational transactions involving action and interaction have been considered the "surface" level of meaning in previous analytic theorizing. The "implicit relational knowing" that the Boston Change Group describe is a developed version of John Bowlby's concept of internal working models based in his attachment theory, on which so many of the workers in this field call. Bowlby recognised that infants become attached to their caregivers even if they do not feed them and he hypothesised that this attachment has a biological basis which he linked to Darwin's evolutionary theory. Thus, "genetic selection favoured attachment behaviours because they increased the likelihood of child-mother proximity, which in turn increased the likelihood of protection and provided survival advantage".
