McCluskey, Una, 1949-

To be met as a person : the dynamics of attachment in professional encounters / Una McCluskey. - xx, 268 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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

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Empathy.
Psychotherapy.
Social interaction.
Psychotherapy--Methodology.
Caregivers--Psychology.
Professional-Patient Relations.
Object Attachment

BF575.E55 / M38 2005

152.41