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