ABSTRACT
The real act of discovery consists not in finding new lands, but seeing with new eyes.
Marcel Proust
This chapter contains seven sets of new findings in relationship psychology that are relevant to our focus on the core fundamental tasks of Patient-Centered Care (PCC). We show you a list of the advances with comments about their scientific status, then discuss each advance, then illustrate two frameworks that place the advances into a health care context, and finally present a section on specific advances in the field of nursing. All the advances in this chapter are within the scope of an emerging field called Relationship Psychology and Interpersonal Neurobiology (IPNB) (Siegel and Solomon, 2013). Although currently heavily informed by interpersonal clinical psychology integrated with emerging concepts in neurobiology, we anticipate that as neural measurement tools advance, IPNB may play a major role to integrate research studies focused on intrapersonal emotional functions and relationship behaviors with those focused upon neural functioning. We recommend Van der Kolk’s book (2014) as a resource on this topic.
