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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
An excellent guide for practitioners,
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This review is from: The Practice Of Emotionally Focused Marital Therapy: Creating Connection (Paperback)
Johnson does a beautiful job of laying out the process of effective therapy with couples in a manner that is both clear and respectful of the complexity of the process. Upon reading her book, it suddenly became clear to me why I have been successful with some couples and painfully inadequate with others. It's been a real jump-start to my feeling alive and effective again in therapy. Tom Daniels, Ph.D. Licensed Psychologist
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4.8 out of 5 stars (13 customer reviews) 78 of 84 people found the following review helpful
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An excellent guide for practitioners,
By Thomas L. Daniels "Tom" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Practice Of Emotionally Focused Marital Therapy: Creating Connection (Paperback)
Johnson does a beautiful job of laying out the process of effective therapy with couples in a manner that is both clear and respectful of the complexity of the process. Upon reading her book, it suddenly became clear to me why I have been successful with some couples and painfully inadequate with others. It's been a real jump-start to my feeling alive and effective again in therapy. Tom Daniels, Ph.D. Licensed Psychologist
28 of 29 people found the following review helpful
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Well Structured and Useful Book For Couples Therapists,
By Dr. Jeanette Raymond "http://www.drjeanettera... - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: The Practice of Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy: Creating Connection (Paperback)
Bringing insecure attachment dialogues to life is the most useful aspect of this book. The step by step approach to couples therapy is helplful especially for those therapists unfamiliar with how attachment issues play out in the therapeutic context.More information on screeening out couples who may not benefit from this approach would have been invaluable - rather than just referring to couples who are breaking up. Many couples have not learned the language of emotion. Some express it somatically or by numbing it with substances or food. These couples would need far more than 12 sessions and a great deal of training and practice to be able to learn about their attachment dances and break the cycles that lead to distancing. Insight is not the primary aim of EFCT, yet couples are encouraged to notice and become increasingly aware of their automatic processes that lead to misattuned connections. I think that is precisely what gaining insight is about,which in turn allows for new actions to be attempted in the future. Johnson suggests that most couples therapists use problem solving approaches over emotionally focused strategies. Those of us who bring in Object Relations and Intersubjective ideas into our work facilitate couples in attending to and sharing their emotional experiences with their partners. This is the norm rather than the exception. Johnson's book makes the process more systematic and contained. It doesn't help with couples where one or both partners get secondary gains from making the other 'bad.' Overall a useful adjunct for psychotherapists already doing emotionally focused work with couples. [...] 25 of 26 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent and concise,
By Anna R. Brandon "Anna R. Brandon, Ph.D." - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Practice of Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy: Creating Connection (Paperback)
Good overview of the relationship between attachment and emotional functioning in marriage. The manualized treatment approach has been empirically supported so deserves more than just a glance. An excellent addition to the libraries of anyone interested in and encountering the challenges of couples counseling.
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