ABSTRACT
Emotionally focused couple therapy was formulated in the early 1980s as a response to the lack of clearly delineated and validated couple interventions particularly more humanistic and less behavioral interventions. As a model of intervention, emotionally focused therapy (EFT) arose from systematic observation of couples in therapy and the process by which they succeeded in repairing their relationships. In the case of EFT, the therapist knows to constantly focus on emotion, the music of a dance between intimates, patterns of disconnection, and the gradual creation of more secure connection between partners. It is then hard to lose couple therapists way as a therapist in EFT, even in the constantly changing intense drama of a distressed relationship. EFT always focused on the relationship between partners in terms of an emotional bond, rather than a bargain to be renegotiated as in traditional behavioral couple therapy.
