We've gathered Psychotherapy Networkers most popular posts and arranged them here by topic.
Healing the Rifts
Tammy Nelson
Lockdown provoked a wide range of emotions among partnered people, including an increase in anxiety, fear, loneliness, boredom and frustration. It’s been hard on almost everyone. For one throuple, it provided a turning point.
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The Journey of Grief Groups
Sherry Cormier
The word healing means to make whole, but coming to a sense of wholeness after a significant loss is a difficult process that can’t be rushed.
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Sue Johnson Breaks Down the Core Tenets
Susan Johnson
Perhaps now more than ever, maintaining strong relationships is crucial to our emotional well-being. In this video clip from the 2020 Virtual Symposium, EFT originator Sue Johnson explains the core tenets of attachment theory.
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Finding Your "Secure Base"
Susan Johnson
How can therapists help couples stuck in cycles of shame, hurt, and anger get back to a healthy, loving relationship? Couples therapist Susan Johnson uses the example of her clients Frank and Sylvie to explain how, by establishing what she refers to as "secure base," they restored both an emotional and physical spark to their relationship.
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Stephen Porges Explains What Connection Actually Looks Like
Stephen Porges
Stephen Porges, originator of the Polyvagal Theory, transformed the way we understand the underlying mechanisms of traumatic response and how safety, caring, and trustworthiness are conveyed unconsciously. Here, he explains how to spot healthy connection in the body.
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Repairing the Parent-Child Bond is a Two-Way Street
Dafna Lender
By Dafna Lender - When difficulties arise between parent and child, most therapists naturally focus treatment on the child. But the parent–child bond is a two-way street, and parents come with their own history. In these situations, I can often find ways to help parents and children connect through attachment-based games that involve elements of silliness, movement, and surprise.
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Jerome Kagan, Daniel Siegel, and Salvador Minuchin Weigh In
Mary Sykes Wylie
By Mary Sykes Wylie - In the world of psychotherapy, few models of human development have attracted more acceptance in recent years than the centrality of early bonding experiences to adult psychological well-being. What on earth could ever be wrong with emphasizing early bonding, connection, and relationship as the foundation of all good therapy? According to some critics, attachment-based therapy neglects a vast range of important human influences.
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The Behavior Patterns That Kill Romance, and How to Beat Them
Susan Johnson
Susan Johnson, the developer of Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy and a presenter at the
2019 Networker Symposium, has devoted her career to demonstrating that it’s not an oxymoron to speak of the "science of love."
Listen as she explains how attachment science can help couples discover a pathway to optimal lovemaking.
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How Boomers Shaped Millennial Romance
Esther Perel
Couples therapist Esther Perel has been recognized as one of the world’s most original and insightful thinkers about couples, sexuality, and the peculiar paradoxes besetting modern marriage in the Western world. In this clip from her Networker Symposium keynote, she talks about the complicated and contradictory needs that are shaping Millennial marriage and commitment today.
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Learning to Think About It in a New Way
Barbara Fredrickson
According to Barbara Fredrickson, a leading scholar in the field of social psychology and affective science, we have a tendency to think about love in abstract terms. In this clip from her Networker Symposium keynote, she makes the case for broadening our perspective of what love means on both a physical and emotional level.
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