The Shape You Take in Love: An Introduction to the Relational Animal Archetypes

Send us Fan Mail Ask someone how they felt when their partner pulled away last night, and you'll often get a long pause, or a shrug, or "I don't know, weird." Ask what they did instead, and the answer comes fast, because behavior is easier to name than emotion. This episode walks early-career therapists through the Relational Animal Archetypes, the client-facing piece of Affect Relational Theory (A.R.T.), a framework built from Silvan Tomkins' affect theory, polyvagal science, and object re...