Advances in Relational Psychotherapy

Attachment, Development and Relational Capacity

Just as the child’s original attachment relationships make development possible, it is ultimately the new relationship of attachment with the therapist that allows the patient to change. Our ability to provide a secure base will largely depend upon our own attachment history – and our relationship to that history. To set the stage for exploring the impact of our own psychology, David Wallin will discuss how therapists can attempt to generate a secure base and in the process help their patients to deconstruct the attachment patterns of the past, to construct new ones in the present, and to integrate previously dissociated experience.