lacanian attachment analysts

John Bowlby and Colin Murray Parkes pioneered work on the mourning cycle. Mourning is nature's cure for trauma. Mourning is unlearnt and instinctive, but it is possible to become stuck in a phase of mourning. An analyst can help a person to move through this and on towards recovery. Then with renewed energy, it is possible to live in the creative cycle of desire. John Southgate worked on the Creative Cycle using Wilhelm Reich's ideas on orgasmic creativity, and Lacan's work on Needs, Wants, Demands and Desires In a long term Lacanian attachment analysis the creative cycle weaves in and out of the discourse to help transform the movement from Trauma to Recovery and then to the person beginning to make demands for her or his Needs, Wants and Desires in contemporary relationships. mourning and the Boromean knot