From broken attachments to earned security : the role of empathy in therapeutic change /
edited by Andrew Odgers.
- London : Karnac Books, (c)2014.
- 1 online resource (xvi, 140 pages)
- The John Bowlby Memorial Conference Monograph Series .
Includes bibliographies and index.
COVER; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABOUT THE EDITOR AND CONTRIBUTORS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE Attachment theory and the John Bowlby Memorial Lecture 2011: a short history; CHAPTER TWO The effort of empathy; CHAPTER THREE Love bombing: a simple self-help intervention for parents to reset their child's emotional thermostat; CHAPTER FOUR To shed what still attempts to cling as if attached by thorns; CHAPTER FIVE Creating, destroying, and restoring Sanctuary within caregiving organisations: the eighteenth John Bowlby Memorial Lecture. CHAPTER SIX "What happens after this quiet bit? I may have to leave now." The risks of empathyCHAPTER SEVEN Empathy and earned security: reciprocal influences, ruptures, and shifts in the psychotherapeutic process; APPENDIX I Reading list; INDEX.
The 2011 John Bowlby Memorial Conference, 'From Broken Attachments to Earned Security - The Role of Empathy in Therapeutic Change', focussed on what needs to take place to facilitate empathy and attunement and ultimately the achievement of earned security. The challenge we posed was how to re-establish a secure sense of self, mutuality, and the capacity for inter/intra-subjectivity when difficulties in empathy and attunement exist as a result of relational trauma. This can be between parent and child, within adult relationships, between client and therapist, or in organisational contexts. The.