Heralded by the New York Times and Time as the couples therapy with the highest
rate of success, Emotionally Focused Therapy works because it views the love
relationship as an attachment bond.
This idea, once controversial, is now supported by science, and has become
widely popular among therapists around the world. In Hold Me Tight, Dr. Sue
Johnson presents Emotionally Focused Therapy to the general public for the first
time. Johnson teaches that the way to save and enrich a relationship is to
reestablish safe emotional connection and preserve the attachment bond. With
this in mind, she focuses on key moments in a relationship-from Recognizing the
Demon