Abstract
Attachment theory, viewed through the lens of neurobiology, explains how infants learn, through unconscious, rapid, nonverbal interactions with caretaking adults, to successfully manage their own emotional energy. These neurological affect-regulating mechanisms formed in early childhood shape later-forming attachment relationships, including those of adult romantic dyads which depend, for intimacy and stability, on the same right-brain, nonverbal, modulating capacities. Psychoanalytic researchers have identified healing, implicit, unconscious psychobiological mechanisms, other than verbal insight, explanation, and interpretation, that can be learned remedially in couples therapy. This article examines an implicit, emotion-focused approach to couples work that brings unconscious affect center stage.
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