@ARTICLE{Kenny_Dianna_T._Attachment_2018, author={Kenny, Dianna T. and Holmes, Jeremy}, volume={vol. 49}, number={No 3: Advances in research on performance anxiety}, journal={Polish Psychological Bulletin}, howpublished={online}, year={2018}, publisher={Committee for Psychological Science PAS}, abstract={This paper investigates attachment themes in the life history narratives of professional orchestral musicians and their relationship with music performance anxiety (MPA). Narrative accounts derived from open -ended in -depth interviews of ten professional musicians were analysed from an attachment perspective using content and thematic analysis. We hypothesized that the performance setting re -triggers unprocessed feelings related to early attachment experiences, especially when traumatic, and that defensive manoeuvres against their re -emergence into consciousness are activated. The interviews identified early relational trauma as a relevant etiological factor in the MPA -symptomatic of the musicians studied. A case is made for the addition of an attachment -informed life -course model rather than a purely symptomatic approach to understanding and treating severe MPA and other intra -personal psychodynamics of performing musicians.}, type={Artykuły / Articles}, title={Attachment quality is associated with music performance anxiety in professional musicians: an exploratory narrative study}, URL={http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/103967/PDF/PPB%203-18%202-D.Kenny%20i%20in.pdf}, keywords={attachment theory, attachment quality, attachment narratives, musicians, music performance anxiety}, }