Memorie e vissuti delle relazioni infantili d'attaccamento nel gruppo di donne maltrattate

The paper discasses the preliminary results of a study on 12 buttered women. the research was conducted in a Buttered Women Centre in Rome. Data was collected using the Adult Attachment Interview (Main and Goldwyn, 1985-1994). Our purpose was:1)to investigate the sate of mind about childhood attachment experiences of 12 women victmins of violences within marriage;2)to link present experiences of abusive relationships with peculiar attachment states of mind.Results:1)a preoccupied and entangled pattern of attachment;2)noteworthy unresolved/disorganized responses both to childhood abuse and to loss. Most subjects' states of mind are classified as unresolved;3)laughter while speaking about their most painful experiences;4)peculiar charachteristics of relationship experiences with the father, with the mother, and in vulnerability episodes. It seemed that these women tended to segregate from awareness, and/or to normalize not only violence in affective relations and their perception of pain and fear, but aso the more general perception of pain experienced in loss. -