Book Set Hold Me Tight The Power of Attachment - Sue Johnson

The power of attachment

Attachment is the basis for the development of personality and relationships.

Sue Johnson draws on the latest research in this area and offers a psychotherapeutic strategy for improving relationships with your partner and loved ones. The author states that therapy is most effective when it focuses on the healing power of emotional connection.

Hold me tight

This is a book for couples young and old, married, engaged and just living together, happy and unhappy, straight and gay - for everyone, who is looking for lifelong love. It is for women and men. For people from all walks of life and all cultures. Intimacy and affection are a basic need for one and all.

Its author, Sue Johnson, together with her supervisor, developed a new approach to couples therapy - Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT).

They launched a research project in which couples participated in EFT (then just being developed), couples who were offered behavioral therapy - the development of communication and negotiation skills, as well as couples who had not undergone therapy at all. EFT showed impressive results compared to those obtained in the other two groups. Relationships in couples became closer, quarrels became less frequent, and the satisfaction of both partners increased significantly.

The book consists of three parts. Part one answers the age-old question, “What is love?” Explains how we lose intimacy, and after it love, even though we wanted the best, even though we understood everything. It contains research data on love and relationships.

Part two - popularly stated principles of emotionally focused therapy. Seven healing dialogues covering defining, life-changing moments in relationships that will teach you to use these moments to make your connection strong and lasting. Stories from practice and a practical part after each dialogue will help connect the theory of EFT with practice and reinforce each lesson using the example of your own relationships.

The third part is about the power of love. Love that can miraculously heal the wounds that life often inflicts on us. Love that strengthens our connection with the “bigger world.” Love and compassion are the basis, the foundation of a truly compassionate, civilized society.