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Attunement goes beyond empathy: it is a process of communion and unity of interpersonal contact. It is a two-part process that begins with empathy-being sensitive to and identifying with the other person's sensations, needs or feelings; and includes the communication of that sensitivity to the other person. More than just understanding (Rogers, 195 1) or vicarious introspection (Kohut, 1971), attunement is a kinesthetic and emotional sensing of others knowing their rhythm, affect and experience by metaphorically being in their skin, and going beyond empathy to create a two-person experience of unbroken feeling connectedness by providing a reciprocal affect and/or resonating response. Attunement is communicated by what is said as well as by the therapist's facial or body movements that signal to the client that his or her affect and needs are perceived, are significant and make an impact on the therapist. It is facilitated by the therapist's capacity to anticipate and observe the effects of his or her behaviour on the client and to de-centre from his or her own experience to focus extensively on the client's process. Yet, effective attunement also requires that the therapist simultaneously remains aware of the boundary between client and therapist as well as his or her own internal processes.
The communication of attunement validates the client's needs and feelings and lays the foundation for repairing the failures of previous relationships (Erskine, 1997). Affective attunement, for example, provides an interpersonal contact essential to human relationship. It involves the resonance of one person's affect to the other's affect. Affective attunement begins with valuing the other person's affect as an extremely important form of communication, being willing to be affectively aroused by the other person and responding with the reciprocal affect. When a client feels sad, the therapist's reciprocal affect of compassion and compassionate acts complete the interpersonal contact. Relationally, anger requires the reciprocal affects related to attentiveness, seriousness and responsibility, with possible acts of correction. The client who is afraid requires that the therapist respond with affect and action that convey security and protection. When clients express joy, the response from the therapist that completes the unity of interpersonal contact is the reciprocal vitality and expression of pleasure. Symbolically, attunement may be pictured as one person's yin to the other's yang that together form a unity in the relationship.
Attunement is often experienced by the client as the therapist gently moving through the defences that have prevented the awareness of relationship failures and related needs and feelings. Over time this results in a lessening of internal interruptions to contact and a corresponding dissolving of external defences. Needs and feelings can increasingly be expressed with comfort and assurance that they will receive a connecting and caring response. Frequently, the process of attunement provides a sense of safety and stability that enables the client to begin to remember and endure regressing into childhood experiences. This may bring a fuller awareness of the pain of past traumas, shaming experiences, past failures of relationship(s) and loss of aspects of self (Erskine, 1994).
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