Exploring Attachment Theory, Relationships with the Figure of the Mother, and Mother-Daughter Intellectual Bonds in Fiction

Join Natasha Mitchell and guests for a conversation full of surprises on the bonds that make us and sometimes break us. Bad dates, spaceships, surviving cults, the creature within, mother love, loss, and more — how do our attachments shape our minds and lives?

Thanks to Griffith Review and the Brisbane Writers Festival for organising this event.

Speakers:

Anna McGahanActor, playwright, screenwriter, Vogel Award winnerAuthor, Immaculate (Allen and Unwin 2023), and Metanoia: a memoir of a body, born again (Acorn Press, 2020)

Ceridwen DoveyAuthor, Only the Astronauts (Penguin, 2024), Only the Animals (Penguin, 2015), and other titles.

Dr Ahona GuhaClinical and forensic psychologist, writerAuthor, Life Skills for a Broken World (Scribe Publications, 2024) and Reclaim: Understanding complex trauma and those who abuse (Scribe Publications, 2023)

Further information:

Griffith Review: Edition 84 Attachment Styles

Griffith Review's editor Carody Culver on getting attached