Anxiety Preoccupation - What's Your Treatment Approach?

The main ideological contribution to anxious preoccupation is what Mary Maine calls over-involvement in the parent state of mind. These kids were trained to be hypervigilant to the parent state and to comfort and soothe the parent, and to do that on a regular basis. So they end up with chronically high levels,. high baseline levels of anxiety that they can't comfort or soothe.