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Marie and Elizabeth believe that if our attachment to out patient, and reciprocally, our patient's attachment to us, is secure enough (p. 207), they will go on working through the disruptions and repairs inevitably find them. UNC trained its nursing students to care for their patients as whole people, and looking back, Elizabeth sees her education there as her first encounter with self psychology, as yet unarticulated. When the editors of PSC invited us associate editors to interview a modern contributor to self psychology, I immediately knew I would choose Elizabeth Carr. Imagine being encouraged to "sense what my patient is telling me in a particular moment [and] to understand as fully as possible my patient's experience ... and to communicate my understanding to my patient and then closely track her responses ... " (Carr, [2], p. 739). [Extracted from the article]

Amy Eldridge, in "Understanding, Disruption and Recognition: The Road To "Expanded Empathy" In "The Case of Angie", suggests that while Weisel-Barth's empathic responsiveness was essential for establishing sufficient trust for Angie's analysis to survive the disruption that emerged, it had not been sufficient for becoming aware of the silent racial disparities between Weisel-Barth and her patient. In the spring of 2020, much of the world was struggling to cope with the challenges of the quarantines imposed in the face of the exploding COVID-19 pandemic that emerged the previous winter. She sees Weisel-Barth facing her shame for her blindness in earlier years, blindness which mirrored that of those who misread, suppressed, and failed Angie. [Extracted from the article]