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Emotion-Focused Couples Therapy: The Dynamics of Emotion, Love, and Power

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In Emotion-Focused Couples 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.

405 pages, Kindle Edition

First published February 15, 2008

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May 8, 2021
کتاب از سه بخش تشکیل شده. بخش اول توضیح نظریه بود. بخش دوم ارائه‌ی یک چارچوب عملی برای به کارگیری نظریه و تو بخش سوم به توضیح مفصل چند هیجان خاص که بیشترین نقش رو در تعاملات زوجین دارند پرداخته بود.
من بخش توضیح نظریه رو خیلی دوست داشتم و به نظرم خیلی تمیز و قدرتمند موضوع رو شرح داده بود. با اینکه تکرار توش زیاد بود ولی به نظر لازم میومد.
اما از بخش دوم دیگه به نظرم خیلی محتوای خاصی بهم اضافه نمی‌شد که البته اشکالی هم نداشت و این به خاطر تکمیل بودن بخش اول بود. بیشتر بخش اخر رو هم احساس کردم که تکراریه و جان کلام همون چیزی بود که توی بخش اول بود.
کتاب خوبی بود و باعث شد از این بعد حتما نظریه هیجان محور رو گوشه‌ی ذهنم داشته باشم تا درمانگر بهتری باشم.
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