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Attachment Science & Psychotherapy - Professor Jeremy Holmes

The Weekend University

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The Importance of Mirroring

CBT is based on the idea of marked mirroring and contingency. The mother's face is the mirror where an infant first finds himself or herself, says Dr Andrew Wexler. A lot of work that we do as therapists can also be seen in this contingency and marking way. And from a neuroscience point of view, I can think about this as upcoming sensations,. which come feelings, which are then thought about and regulated by psychotherapy.

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