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cure attachments. They go on to connect these
deficits to inadequate conscience development.
So they have drawn our attention to the critical
gaps that clients experience to varying degrees
during development and to the hope of repair
through the therapeutic dyad. I commend the
authors for this connection. I also wonder what
further implications we might be missing by
overlooking the inherit assumptions we Chri-
stian therapists carry in our limited perspecti-
ves of “healthy” conscience. Our authors re-
commend being informed by love and empathy.
I’m grateful for their insights and humbly add
that we consistently acknowledge the enormous
complexity of discerning “healthy” choices and
of loving well in a broken world.

References
Allen, J.G., Fonagy, P., & Bateman, A.W. (2008). Mentali-
zing in clinical practice. Arlington, VA: American Psych-
iatric Publishing, Inc.

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