Emotionally Focused Therapy for Couples
ISBN: 9781606239278 | 1606239279
Edition: 1stFormat: Trade Paper
Publisher: The Guilford Press
Pub. Date: 3/23/2010
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This influential volume provides a comprehensive introduction to emotionally focused therapy (EFT): its theoretical foundations, techniques, and clinical practice.
| Theory and Research | |
| Emotion in Interaction | p. 3 |
| Emotion in Human Functioning | p. 4 |
| Model of Emotion | p. 9 |
| The Self-Organizing Function of Emotion | p. 11 |
| Communication | p. 13 |
| Intimacy and Emotional Bonds | p. 18 |
| The "I-Thou" Dialogue | p. 20 |
| Cognition and the Emotion Process in Interaction | p. 21 |
| Relational Beliefs an... MORE | p. 24 |
| Trust | p. 26 |
| Summary | p. 27 |
| An Affective Systemic Approach | p. 29 |
| Experiential Theory | p. 29 |
| The Interactional Systemic Perspective | p. 32 |
| Integrating Experiential and Systemic Perspectives | p. 35 |
| The Process of Change | p. 40 |
| The Evaluation of Emotionally Focused Therapy | p. 47 |
| Summary | p. 53 |
| Practice | |
| General Considerations | p. 57 |
| Conditions for the Use of Emotionally Focused Therapy | p. 59 |
| Emotionally Focused Therapy versus Other Approaches | p. 62 |
| Overview of the Therapy Process | p. 65 |
| Summary | p. 71 |
| The Initial Interview | p. 72 |
| Assessing Cycles | p. 72 |
| Establishing a Therapeutic Contract | p. 79 |
| The Process of Therapy | p. 82 |
| Nine Steps of Therapy | p. 82 |
| Case Example: The Porcupine and the Armadillo | p. 104 |
| Case Example: The Wall That Separates: An Intrusion-Rejection Pattern | p. 121 |
| Therapist Interventions | p. 148 |
| Accessing Emotional Experience | p. 148 |
| Changing Interactional Positions | p. 164 |
| Summary | p. 173 |
| Clinical Issues | p. 175 |
| Issues Arising in the Process of Accessing Emotion | p. 175 |
| Issues Arising in the Structuring of New Interactions | p. 178 |
| Alliance Mending | p. 180 |
| Training Issues | p. 182 |
| Examples of Change Events Used in Training | p. 184 |
| Using Emotionally Focused Therapy to Address Individual Symptomatology | p. 189 |
| Contraindications for Emotionally Focused Therapy | p. 193 |
| Integration in Couples Therapy | p. 195 |
| Effecting Change | |
| The Process of Change | p. 203 |
| What Are the Change Processes? | p. 203 |
| Observers' Model of the Process of Conflict Resolution | p. 216 |
| Do Interactions Change? | p. 222 |
| What Processes Relate to Outcome? | p. 223 |
| Summary | p. 225 |
| Epilogue: Integration | p. 227 |
| References | p. 231 |
| Index | p. 237 |
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Leslie S. Greenberg, PhD, is Professor of Psychology at York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Susan M. Johnson, EdD, is Professor of Psychology at the University of Ottawa and Director of the Ottawa Couple and Family Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
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