Embodied attunement is the ability to experience in our bodies emotions in the bodies of others. The article explores how we can develop this important capacity. Attunement, embodied attunement, and affect regulation The ability of the primary caregiver to regulate a child’s emotional states has been found to be of central importance in the formation […]

The paper offers a definition of affect tolerance, discusses three important factors that drive it, and their implications for improving the work with emotions in all therapeutic modalities. What is affect tolerance? Why is it important? Dr. Robert Stolorow, who has co-authored many books on the inter-subjective approach to psychoanalysis from whom I was fortunate […]