Bowlby's second article on affectional bonds focuses on the major therapeutic tasks utilized within the framework of attachment theory. The therapist first and above all must provide patients with a secure base from which they can explore both themselves and their relationships. The therapist must join with the patients in such explorations. The patients must be encouraged to consider both the significant persons with whom they are currently involved, the situations in which they find themselves, and the part they may play in bringing such relations about. In the therapist-patient relationship itself, patients should be made aware of how they interpret the therapist's feelings and behavior toward them. Patients are encouraged to consider whether their modes of construing, predicting, or acting may be partly or wholly inappropriate in the light of what they know of the therapist. This is related to the patients' experiences