From Broken Attachments to Earned Security: The Role of Empathy in Therapeutic Change

ISBN-13: 9781782201052 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 156 str.

Andrew Odgers

Opis

The 2011 John Bowlby Memorial Conference, -From Broken Attachments to Earned Security - The Role of Empathy in Therapeutic Change-, focused 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 organizational contexts.

The six papers in this book make a significant contribution to the field of attachment and our understanding of how child rearing affects each aspect of our lives, from the interpersonal to the organizational and societal. Each paper moves beyond the academic and theoretical to provide answers to the many difficult questions we raised at the beginning of the conference.

The practical, sometimes step-by-step explanation of the use of empathy in one-to-one clinical work, in health service organizations or society generally, offer a positive and hopeful way forward. All of the presenters faced up to the challenges of repairing or reversing the impact of derailed attachments and the toxic impact of trauma, offering a realistic but hopeful route to improved relating and healthier attachments.

We believe that this publication will be a valuable resource for students, seasoned practitioners, and health service professionals alike who want to enhance their understanding of empathy and attachment in this demanding field.

Subject areas covered by your book in order of importance and key subject area:

* causes of insecure attachments
* impact of relational trauma
* how to re-establish a secure sense of self
* working one to one and in organizational settings

Spis treści

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSABOUT THE EDITOR AND CONTRIBUTORSINTRODUCTIONCHAPTER ONE Attachment theory and the John Bowlby Memorial Lecture 2011: a short historyKate WhiteCHAPTER TWO The effort of empathySue GerhardtCHAPTER THREELove bombing: a simple self-help intervention for parents to reset their child's emotional thermostatOliver JamesCHAPTER FOUR To shed what still attempts to cling as if attached by thornsJane Haynes and Harry WhiteheadCHAPTER FIVE Creating, destroying, and restoring Sanctuary within caregiving organisations: the eighteenth John Bowlby Memorial LectureSandra BloomCHAPTER SIX"What happens after this quiet bit? I may have to leave now." The risks of empathyEleanor RichardsCHAPTER SEVEN Empathy and earned security: reciprocal influences, ruptures, and shifts in the psychotherapeutic processAnastasia PatrikiouAPPENDIX I Reading listAPPENDIX II The Bowlby CentreINDEX

O autorze

Andrew Odgers