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Hold Me Tight – Book Review
| Guest post by: Bradley Foster |
Article Overview: Business is all about relationships and yet many of us are novices when it comes to maintaining and deepening our relationships. Sue Johnson has written a terrific book about how healthy relationships function. Although it was written as a guide to repairing and maintaining healthy primary relationships, it can be used as a guide to many of our other relationships.
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Hold Me Tight – Book Review
Hold Me Tight is the best book I have ever read on couples
therapy because unlike a lot of other books, it makes sense and it works. Sue Johnson is an Ottawa-based professor
and relationship therapist who noticed that traditional therapies often didn’t
work. Instead of persevering with the old ways or blaming herself, she went
back to the drawing board and came up with a new model.
When I was studying therapy I remember my
teachers telling me that couples therapy was by far the most challenging kind
of therapy—not for the faint of heart. Of course it’ll never be a cakewalk, but
I think Sue Johnson has revolutionized the field by articulating clear and
definite steps to healing broken relationships.
Johnson went back to the books and revisited Attachment Theory, pioneered by John Bowlby in the 1940’s. Most therapists assumed his theory was peculiar to
parents and children since that’s what his studies were based on. Johnson’s
stroke of genius was to realize that Bowlby’s theory underpins all relationships. Understanding
relationships from a new angle gave Johnson a valuable and useful way of
understanding how they function and how they break down.
Being on the clinical side gave Johnson the
tools to articulate a theory and a way to test it. Also being a therapist she
took her theory into the field and tested it on real couples having real
attachment problems. Before long Johnson understood the hidden language behind
disputes and began to teach couples how to have conversations with one another.
The result is this fine book that is part
theory, part teaching tool and part self help book. Anyone can read it and get
a very good idea of how to improve their relationship or teach couples how to
talk to one another in a way that heals instead of inflames. Hold Me Tight is nicely organized
around seven types of conversations that couples can have that will build trust
and attachment between them. Couples can use this book as a guide to learn how
to talk to one another and by mastering the steps. Beyond couples, parents and
children and friends will find knowing how to have these conversations useful
to maintaining the health of their relationships.
If you prefer to learn Hold Me Tight conversations experientially, Sue Johnson teaches her
methodology to therapists and certifies them. There are now hundreds of
therapists in North America who are trained to help couples learn how to talk
and listen to each other. You can find a certified therapist or a training
program near you at Holdmetight.net. I learned
a lot from this book that I will put into practice with all my relationships. This is a book that everyone will benefit
from reading.
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