We all carry within us emotional sensitivities... psychological wounds where we have felt abandoned, rejected, misunderstood, devalued or shamed in our attachment histories. Following Sue Johnson, we refer to these emotional injuries as "raw spots." Typically, we carry the hope within that the support and safety with our primary partner will heal our raw spots... it is painfully disillusioning for so many of us to discover that it is precisely our partner who most triggers these raw spots within. (to be cont)
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- One of the outcomes of couples therapy
- Each desires a certain personalized appreciation
- Raw spots... pivotal emotional injuries in our attachment histories
- Pursuing and Avoiding as Personality Types or as Adaptations to Different Relationships
- Vulnerability in pursuers contrasted with avoiders
- The First Sessions In EFT Couples Therapy
- Add-ons to EFT Couples Treatment #2
- Add-ons to EFT Couples Treatment
- The ubiquity of projection in marriage
- Steadying the negative cycle is a necessary condition but not sufficient...
Healing The Marriage Of Opposites
- Chapter 1: Marriage-Of-Opposites; The Phenomenon
- Chapter 2: Final Common Pathways
- Chapter 3: The Problem Of Nondifferentiation And Developmental Levels
- Chapter 4: Defensive Presentations - When Appearances Deceive
- Chapter 5: The Impact Of Gender
- Chapter 6: The Core- Versus Outer-Styled...Two Differing Projects