To be met as a person : the dynamics of attachment in professional encounters / Una McCluskey.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword / Peter D. Campion -- The dynamics of careseeking and caregiving -- Origins of interest in attunement in therapy -- Research on the process of interaction in adult psychotherapy -- The work of the Chicago Group: 1940-1960 -- From a focus on the individual to a focus on interaction: 1960-1980 -- Psychotherapy research: 1980-2000s -- Infant/caregiver interactions: the process of affect identification, communication, and regulation -- From deduction to construction: from Melanie Klein to Gyorgy Gergely -- Affect regulation is linked with caregiving from the start of life -- Correct identification of affect by the caregiver affects the infant's developing sense of self -- How caregivers communicate to infants that they understand their affective state: the process of affect attunement -- Infants' responsiveness to affective interaction with caregivers and their response to loss of contact with caregivers -- Caregiver/infant interactions: the patterning of relationship -- Patterns of affect attunement associated with effective caregiving -- Affect attunement and empathy -- Patterns of careseeking/caregiving relationships: research into attachment behaviour in infants and young children -- Attachment theory -- Internal working models of the experience of relationship -- Attachment classification: stable and persistent over time -- The adult attachment interview -- Careseeker/caregiver dyads: communication patterns in relation to affect -- Careseeker/caregiver dyads: interaction patterns in relation to play --

Foreword / Peter D. Campion -- 1. The dynamics of careseeking and caregiving -- 2. Research on the process of interaction in adult psychotherapy -- 3. Infant/caregiver interactions : the process of affect identification, communication, and regulation -- 4. Patterns of careseeking/caregiving relationships : research into attachment behaviour in infants and young children -- 5. Presenting the concept of goal-corrected empathic attunement : effective caregiving within psychotherapy -- 6. First experiment : the identification of affect attunement in adult psychotherapy -- 7. Second experiment : is empathic attunement interactive? -- 8. Third experiment : an experiment designed to test whether secure attachment style correlates with empathic attunement and whether empathic attunement can be improved with training -- 9. The process of obtaining a reliable measure for goal-corrected empathic attunement -- 10. Results of the third experiment -- 11. Patterns of functional and dysfunctional careseeking-caregiving partnerships -- 12. Interactions between therapists and patients and their roots in infancy.

Machine converted from AACR2 source record.