Therapeutic Alliance Part 6: Attachment Types and Application

Therapy is an intensely focused relationship that involves acceptance, trust, unconditional positive regard, hope, attunement, tolerance, and mending empathic strains and ruptures. There is also emotional contagion between a therapist and patient, with transference and countertransference. On this week’s episode, I talk about how attachment theory can be a powerful predictor in helping someone move forward past trauma and develop attachment to their therapist in a healthy and therapeutic way. By listening to this episode, you can earn 1 Psychiatry CME Credits. Link to blog. Link to YouTube video.