Emotionally Focused Therapy for Couples by Leslie S Greenberg

Emotionally Focused Therapy for Couples by Leslie S Greenberg

In Emotion-Focused Couples Therapy: The Dynamics of Emotion, Love, and Power, authors Leslie S. Greenberg and Rhonda N. Goldman explore the foundations of emotionally focused therapy for couples. They expand its framework to focus more intently on the development of the self and the relationship system through the promotion of self-soothing and other-soothing; to deal with unmet needs both from the client's adulthood and childhood; and to work more explicitly with emotions, specifically fear, anxiety, shame, power, joy, and love. The authors discuss the affect regulation involved in three major motivational systems central to couples therapy - attachment, identity, and attraction and clarify emotions and motivations in the dominance dimension of couples' interactions.Written with practitioners and graduate students in mind, the authors use a rich variety of case material to demonstrate how working with emotions can facilitate change in couples and, by extension, in all situations where people may be in emotional conflict with others. Greenberg and Goldman provide the tools needed to identify specific emotions and show the reader how to work with them to resolve conflict and promote bonding in couples therapy.

"A fascinating and powerful new approach to working with couples... I am going to use this book whenever I teach courses on marital therapy." - -Neil S. Jacobson, PhD

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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ISBN 13	9780898627305
ISBN 10	0898627303
Title	Emotionally Focused Therapy for Couples
Author	Leslie S Greenberg
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Guilford Publications
Year published	1993-01-01
Number of pages	242
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