Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love

Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love

by Sue Johnson

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Johnson distills her research on Emotionally Focused Therapy into seven conversations couples can use to identify the negative cycles that erode their bond and rebuild secure emotional connection. She argues that romantic love is fundamentally an attachment bond, and that distress arises when partners cannot reach each other emotionally, not because of poor communication skills but because of primal fears of disconnection.

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In this collection, Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love references 4 other books.

It draws on Emotional Intelligence, Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers: The Acclaimed Guide to Stress, Stress-Related Diseases, and Coping and Man's Search for Meaning.

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Builds on Goleman's Emotional Intelligence to argue that couples need a shared emotional vocabulary, extending emotion-recognition skills specifically to attachment signals between partners

Emotional Intelligence

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Emotional Intelligence

by Daniel Goleman

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Invokes Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning on how human beings need a sense of being seen and mattering to another, which Johnson identifies as the core attachment need in marriage

Man's Search for Meaning

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Man's Search for Meaning

by Viktor Frankl

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Extends Goleman's Working with Emotional Intelligence framework, showing how the same emotional competencies that matter at work are essential for repairing attachment injuries

Working with Emotional Intelligence

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Working with Emotional Intelligence

by Daniel Goleman

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