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Attachment Science & Psychotherapy - Professor Jeremy Holmes

The Weekend University

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The Importance of a Secure Base

The secure base is the person that you turn to when you're in distress. Is a therapist a patient secure base? It's an interesting and debatable question, he says. The purpose of therapy or one of the purposes of therapy is for the person to have the experience of their being a secure base there. He adds: "I'm totally convinced that I answered your question"

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