What is Created for Connection by Sue Johnson about?

Created for Connection by Sue Johnson is a Christian-focused relationship guide based on Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT). The book teaches couples how to build secure emotional bonds through understanding attachment needs, breaking destructive communication patterns called "Demon Dialogues," and engaging in seven transformative conversations. Johnson integrates Biblical principles with proven therapeutic techniques to help partners create lasting intimacy grounded in faith and emotional responsiveness.

Who was Sue Johnson, the author of Created for Connection?

Sue Johnson was a world-renowned clinical psychologist and the primary developer of Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), recognized as the gold standard for couples therapy. She earned her doctorate from the University of British Columbia in 1984 and founded the International Centre for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy. Johnson received prestigious honors including the American Psychological Association's "Family Psychologist of the Year" and the Order of Canada for her global contributions to relationship science. She passed away in April 2024.

Who should read Created for Connection?

Created for Connection is ideal for Christian couples seeking to strengthen their marriage through faith-based relationship guidance. The book serves couples wanting to enrich healthy relationships, revitalize disconnected ones, or rescue struggling marriages while integrating God and Biblical teachings into their bond. Marriage counselors, pastors, and faith-based therapists will also find valuable tools for helping couples understand attachment needs and emotional responsiveness from a Christian perspective.

Is Created for Connection worth reading?

Created for Connection is worth reading because it combines scientifically-proven Emotionally Focused Therapy with Christian principles, offering the only program validated to improve both relationship satisfaction and foster secure bonds. With EFT demonstrating 70-75% effectiveness for couples, the book provides actionable frameworks rather than superficial advice. The integration of Biblical verses, real-life stories, and practical exercises makes complex therapeutic concepts accessible while honoring faith traditions.

What are the Demon Dialogues in Created for Connection?

Demon Dialogues are destructive communication patterns that couples fall into during conflicts, including "Find the Bad Guy," "Protest Polka," and "Freeze and Flee." - Find the Bad Guy involves mutual blame and accusations that create hostility. - Protest Polka occurs when one partner pursues connection through demands while the other withdraws, creating a frustrating cycle. - Freeze and Flee happens when both partners emotionally shut down to avoid hurt. Recognizing these patterns is crucial for breaking free and rebuilding emotional safety.

What are the Seven Transformative Conversations in Created for Connection?

The Seven Transformative Conversations in Created for Connection guide couples through articulating their deepest fears and desires to foster secure attachment. These structured dialogues help partners recognize negative patterns, understand underlying attachment needs, and rebuild emotional connection. The conversations move couples from blame and defensiveness toward vulnerability and responsiveness, creating a safe emotional bond similar to a child's secure attachment to a parent and believers' relationship with God.

How does Created for Connection differ from Hold Me Tight by Sue Johnson?

Created for Connection is essentially the same book as Hold Me Tight but approaches the material from an explicitly Christian perspective. Johnson welcomes Kenneth Sanderfer as a contributor who adds Biblical verses, scripture references, and faith-based components that align EFT principles with Christian teachings. While Hold Me Tight focuses purely on attachment science and therapy, Created for Connection shows how the framework reflects what Christians read in the Bible, from Genesis's garden marriage to Revelation's wedding feast.

What is Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) in Created for Connection?

Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) is a structured, attachment-based approach to couples therapy that Sue Johnson developed over 30 years ago, now recognized as the gold standard for helping couples reconnect. EFT focuses on the emotional bond between partners, helping them understand and reshape emotional responses based on attachment needs. Research demonstrates that 70-75% of couples who undergo EFT experience significant improvement in relationship satisfaction, with effectiveness validated in over 35 years of peer-reviewed clinical research.

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O best-seller de um milhão de cópias da Dra. Sue Johnson combina psicologia e fé, oferecendo aos casais cristãos um caminho revolucionário para uma conexão mais profunda. Recomendado pelo Dr. John Gottman como "o melhor terapeuta de casais do mundo", este guia revela como vínculos emocionais seguros transformam tanto os casamentos quanto as jornadas espirituais.

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Capítulo 1

The Dance of Connection: How Secure Bonds Transform Our Lives

Love is perhaps the most powerful force in human existence, yet for centuries it has remained mysterious and elusive. In "Created for Connection," renowned psychologist Dr. Sue Johnson reveals groundbreaking insights about romantic love that merge cutting-edge science with timeless spiritual wisdom. The book has become a favorite among therapists, relationship counselors, and even celebrities like Gwyneth Paltrow, who called it "life-changing" for her own relationships. What makes this work so revolutionary is how it bridges the gap between faith and science, showing that our deepest human need for emotional connection aligns perfectly with both biblical teachings and neuroscientific research. As Johnson's approach transforms thousands of struggling relationships through Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), her work continues to reshape how we understand love-not as a luxury or a fleeting emotion, but as our fundamental survival code wired into our very biology.

Capítulo 2

The Science of Attachment: Our Wired Need for Connection

For centuries, love remained mysterious-variously defined as a trading of favors, a social custom, or a biological strategy. Today, we can no longer afford this ambiguity. Our modern lives have become increasingly isolated, with fewer community bonds and longer work hours. We now ask our partners for the emotional connection our grandparents could get from an entire village. The breakthrough came with John Bowlby's attachment theory. Born to emotionally distant upper-class parents and later working with troubled children, Bowlby challenged prevailing wisdom by insisting emotional bonds were essential for development. His radical theory-that keeping loved ones close is a built-in survival code-faced fierce opposition in an era that valued emotional distance. Through simple experiments like the Strange Situation, Bowlby and colleague Mary Ainsworth demonstrated how children respond differently to separation based on their mothers' emotional responsiveness. Meanwhile, Harry Harlow's monkey experiments proved the devastating effects of isolation. These studies eventually revolutionized childcare practices, establishing that children require ongoing physical and emotional closeness. When researchers Phil Shaver and Cindy Hazan applied these theories to adult relationships, they discovered adults exhibit the same attachment patterns as children-needing emotional closeness, reassurance during distress, and confidence from knowing someone "has their back." Their research validated key principles: our deepest instinct is seeking closeness with loved ones; these connections provide both safe haven and secure base; loss of connection creates vulnerability; emotional responsiveness shapes secure bonds; and we employ specific strategies when feeling connected or threatened. The evidence for our need for connection is overwhelming. Loneliness doubles heart attack risk, while negative relationships harm our health-unhappy marriages increase blood pressure and stress hormones. Studies show hostile interactions impair immune function and even slow physical healing. Conversely, simply holding a loving partner's hand reduces brain stress responses and pain perception. As psychologist Jim Coan notes, loved ones are "hidden regulators" of our bodily processes and emotional lives. For people of faith, these scientific findings perfectly align with Scripture's emphasis on human connection. The Hebrew word for love in the Bible is silent, just the sound of breathing, describing the intimate "face-to-face" connection God desires with us and we can have with partners.

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When Connection Breaks: Understanding Relationship Distress

When love connections falter, we face emotional danger that triggers our most primitive survival responses. The moment our loved one becomes emotionally unavailable or distant, we experience what neuroscientist Jaak Panksepp calls "primal panic" - an instinctive fear response triggered in the brain's amygdala. This mirrors David's poignant description in Psalm 38:10: "My heart beats wildly and my strength fails." Our reactions are visceral and immediate: we either become demanding and clingy, desperately seeking reassurance, or we withdraw to protect ourselves from potential rejection and pain. These unconscious strategies create vicious spirals of insecurity that Johnson calls "Demon Dialogues" - destructive patterns that can persist for years if left unchecked. Consider Carol and Jim's seemingly minor fight about lateness that rapidly escalates to encompass deeper issues about emotional availability, sexual intimacy, and communication. Their entire relationship becomes marked by resentment and distance, with every interaction filtered through a lens of negativity and past hurts. Even simple discussions about household chores become laden with hidden meanings and perceived slights. The first destructive pattern is "Find the Bad Guy," a mutual blame dance where partners attack each other to protect themselves. When emotional safety disappears, we define our partner negatively, creating an "It's Not Me, It's You" dynamic. Partners might catalog each other's faults, bring up past mistakes, or interpret neutral actions as hostile. As we become caught in this pattern, we anticipate attacks and react faster, restricting our emotional range and deadening the relationship. Small disagreements quickly escalate into full-blown character assassinations. More common is the "Protest Polka" where one partner demands connection while the other withdraws. Eva and Chuck perfectly demonstrate this pattern - she aggressively protests their disconnection through criticism and emotional outbursts, while he quietly retreats into work or hobbies. This creates a self-reinforcing cycle: Eva feels abandoned and pokes harder for any response, making increasingly desperate attempts to engage, while Chuck feels judged and withdraws further into his "shell," convinced that nothing he does will ever be enough. Unlike simple communication problems, this pattern stems from deep attachment fears - Eva's terror of abandonment and Chuck's fear of inadequacy and failure. The most dangerous pattern is "Freeze and Flee," where both partners shut down into frozen defense. Though they may appear polite around practical matters like scheduling or finances, the emotional connection is dying beneath the surface. Terry and Carol, for instance, both grew up in emotionally distant families, learning to numb their needs for comfort and connection. They maintain a perfectly cordial household but live as emotional strangers. These automatic responses aren't permanent personality traits but survival strategies that become disastrous in marriage, slowly eroding intimacy and trust. Standard remedies like communication skills training or taking time-outs often fail because they don't address the fundamental need for secure attachment. Even articulate couples with excellent insight can't access these skills during emotional tsunamis when their attachment fears are triggered. While these techniques may temporarily interrupt fights, they often increase emotional distance precisely when connection is most needed, leaving couples feeling more isolated and misunderstood than before.

Capítulo 4

Raw Spots: Our Deepest Vulnerabilities

We're all vulnerable in love relationships, but most of us have exquisite sensitivities-"raw spots"-that when touched can bleed all over our relationship. These hypersensitivities form when attachment needs have been repeatedly neglected or dismissed, leaving us feeling emotionally deprived or deserted. Raw spots manifest in various ways: the author's anger when her husband's eyelids droop during conversation (reminding her of an ex-partner who disconnected); Francois's panic when his wife Nicole smiles at another man (after experiencing infidelity); Linda's hurt when her husband Jonathan withholds compliments (echoing her mother's refusal to praise her); and Steve's shutdown when his wife requests more sex (triggering insecurities from childhood). These sensitivities often interact, with partners' raw spots rubbing against each other. Jessie and Mike became trapped when Mike's controlling behavior with Jessie's daughter triggered her childhood trauma of living with abusive men, while Mike felt abandoned when Jessie focused exclusively on her daughter. Raw spots reveal themselves through two clear signs: first, a sudden radical shift in emotional tone during conversation; second, reactions that seem disproportionate to the trigger-like Pierre's explosive response when Marla takes a brief phone call on their usual lovemaking night. These reactions occur because primal attachment needs and fears suddenly activate. The process unfolds in milliseconds: an attachment cue (like a critical tone or withdrawn affection) triggers our alarm system; our bodies respond physiologically; our intellect tries to interpret the meaning; and we prepare to move toward, away from, or against our partner. Despite our natural reluctance to confront vulnerabilities in a society that values strength, sharing our raw spots is essential for creating secure connections. We fear appearing weak, losing control of our emotions, or giving our partner a "weapon" to hurt us. Similarly, we often avoid acknowledging our partner's distress signals because we don't know how to respond. David, a high-powered executive, realized that avoiding his emotions limited genuine connection. Once he accepted these feelings as natural rather than flaws, confronting them became easier and actually "took the bite out of them." Like balanced tango dancers, when we're grounded in our emotional reality, we can truly move together with our partners.

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Capítulo 5

Emotional Responsiveness: The Key to Lasting Love

When love relationships falter, partners often miss each other's desperate attempts to reconnect. Tim dismisses Sarah's emotional needs as immaturity while she sees him as emotionally unavailable. While Tim defends himself as a good provider who doesn't cheat or abuse, Sarah feels profoundly lonely, even saying she "wore out her knees praying" about their disconnection. The foundation of Emotionally Focused Therapy consists of seven conversations aimed at encouraging emotional responsiveness-the key to lasting love. This responsiveness has three essential components: Accessibility (Can I reach you?), which means staying open to your partner even when feeling insecure; Responsiveness (Can I rely on you to respond emotionally?), which involves showing that your partner's emotions impact you; and Engagement (Do I know you will value me and stay close?), which refers to the special attention reserved only for a loved one. This A.R.E. framework echoes the biblical model of receptivity demonstrated by Christ, as in the story of the woman with an issue of blood, where Jesus showed perfect accessibility, responsiveness, and engagement by stopping, listening, and responding with tenderness to her vulnerability. When couples engage in these conversations, they experience what physicists call "resonance"-a sympathetic vibration allowing elements to synchronize and act in harmony. This connection manifests not just emotionally but physically through mirror neurons in the prefrontal cortex that allow us to literally feel what others experience. Additionally, during moments of responsive engagement, our brains flood with oxytocin, the "cuddle hormone" that creates feelings of bliss and calm. The first four EFT conversations transformed Sarah and Tim's relationship. In "Recognizing the Demon Dialogues," they identified their damaging dance and understood what was really happening-Sarah's attacks were protests against eroding connection, while Tim's defensiveness expressed fear of disappointing her. In "Finding the Raw Spots," they explored deeper feelings connected to attachment needs and fears. Tim revealed his fear of failure while Sarah shared how his lateness triggered childhood abandonment wounds from her father. In "Revisiting a Rocky Moment," they replayed a difficult interaction, acknowledging each person's steps and emotions, giving them control over their negative pattern instead of being controlled by it. The fourth conversation, "Hold Me Tight," was transformative, allowing Tim to express vulnerability about feeling "crazy paralyzed" when unable to please Sarah, while she risked asking directly for reassurance and attention. This created a secure connection that moved their relationship to solid ground.

Capítulo 6

Healing Relationship Wounds

Relationship traumas-moments when one partner feels profoundly abandoned during times of vulnerability-can derail even the most promising progress toward connection. These aren't just minor hurts but grievous wounds that overturn our world and challenge our assumptions about safety and care. When Helen recalls Conrad leaving her alone after her cancer scare, or when Francine can't move past how Joseph handled revealing his affair, they're experiencing the devastating impact of what attachment researchers call relationship injuries. These traumatic moments provide searing negative answers to our core questions: "Are you there for me when I need you most? Do you care about my pain?" What appear to be minor incidents can have devastating power when they represent relationship traumas-wounds that plunge us into fear and helplessness. These traumas are especially severe when they involve a "violation of human connection" from the very people we count on for support. They trigger hypervigilance, flashbacks and avoidance-classic indicators of traumatic stress. The power of these moments lies in how they answer our fundamental attachment question: "Are you there for me when I need you most?" These pass-or-fail tests often occur during times of high emotional vulnerability like illness, childbirth, or loss. The wounding partners aren't usually malicious but simply don't know how to provide emotional presence during crisis. Forgiveness isn't just a moral decision but requires a special healing conversation that fosters renewed trust. After mapping the dance of forgiveness through research, Johnson identified six essential steps: First, the hurt partner must speak their pain openly, focusing on the specific situation and its impact on their sense of safety. Second, the injuring partner must stay emotionally present and acknowledge their part in causing pain. Third, couples must reverse the "Never Again" dictum by sharing vulnerability. Fourth, the injuring partner must take ownership with genuine remorse-not defensive apologies but invitations to reconnect. Fifth, a Hold Me Tight conversation centers on the injury, with the hurt partner identifying what they need now for closure. Finally, the couple creates a new story capturing how they confronted and healed the trauma together. This process may need repetition, especially with multiple traumas or affairs, but healing one significant injury often resolves others. While injuries never disappear, they become integrated into couples' stories as demonstrations of renewal and connection.

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The Integration of Sex and Emotional Connection

Passion naturally ignites relationships, but contrary to pervasive cultural messages suggesting sexual desire inevitably dims with time, contemporary research demonstrates that secure emotional bonding and fulfilling sexuality actually reinforce and amplify each other. The emotional foundation creates the conditions for extraordinary physical intimacy, while meaningful sexual connection deepens emotional bonds in a continuous positive feedback loop. Extensive research across multiple studies reveals that satisfied couples attribute 15-20% of their relationship happiness to pleasing sexual experiences, while distressed partners blame 50-70% of their relationship problems on sexual difficulties. This stark contrast highlights how sexual issues often function as the "canary in the mine" - an early warning system signaling deeper connection problems that require attention. The relationship's emotional safety directly impacts sexual experience because our nervous systems cannot simultaneously maintain defensive wariness and sexual arousal. When we feel emotionally unsafe, our bodies automatically prioritize self-protection over pleasure. Johnson identifies three distinct sexual styles in relationships, each reflecting different attachment patterns. Sealed-Off Sex focuses primarily on physical release - reducing sexual tension, achieving orgasm, and validating sexual prowess while keeping emotional vulnerability and connection minimal. This pattern typically emerges when individuals have never learned to trust deeply or feel fundamentally unsafe with partners due to past attachment injuries. Partners engaging in this impersonal approach often report feeling used and objectified rather than cherished, leading to a cycle of increasing emotional distance. Solace Sex represents a different pattern where physical intimacy serves primarily as reassurance against abandonment fears rather than mutual pleasure. While more emotionally engaged than Sealed-Off Sex, anxiety drives these encounters, making true arousal difficult to maintain. Research consistently shows that anxiously attached individuals often prefer cuddling and affection to actual intercourse, seeking validation through their partner's desire rather than mutual satisfaction. When sex functions primarily as an "antianxiety pill," it loses its essential erotic charge and spontaneity. Synchrony Sex exemplifies the ideal integration of emotional openness, tender touch, and erotic exploration - representing sex as nature intended. Within secure emotional connections, physical intimacy maintains its passionate ardor while allowing partners to move fluidly between tender and fiery exchanges. This synchrony mirrors what psychiatrist Dan Stern observed in his research on attunement between secure lovers who instinctively respond to each other's shifting states of arousal and emotion with exquisite sensitivity. Partners who achieve this connected state can reveal sexual vulnerabilities without fear of rejection and discuss preferences openly and playfully. Research confirms that securely attached partners express needs more directly, experiment more willingly with new experiences, and maintain higher levels of sexual satisfaction over time. They can also navigate inevitable awkward moments or challenges with humor and resilience, as demonstrated by couples like Frank and Sylvie who transformed potential sexual disasters into opportunities for deeper connection through laughter and understanding. In secure relationships, excitement stems not from constant novelty or performance pressure but from staying open to the moment-to-moment experience of connection. This explains the perhaps counterintuitive finding that long-married partners often report more satisfying and frequent sexual encounters than unmarried individuals. The safety of secure attachment creates the perfect container for sustained sexual exploration and fulfillment.

Capítulo 8

Sustaining Love: Rituals and Stories

The final conversation explores how to maintain love over time, challenging the notion that relationships inevitably deteriorate. Love is compared to a language-if practiced regularly, it flows more easily; if neglected, it fades. A.R.E. conversations form the language of love, providing a road map for nurturing your relationship into the future. Couples can identify potential triggers for their negative cycles and create specific "detours" to avoid them. Inez and Fernando recognized how his withdrawal and her anxious reactions created problems, so they agreed on simple phrases to help stay connected during difficult moments. Similarly, Christine and Darren, recovering from infidelity, identified how discussions about sex triggered Christine's insecurities. Darren agreed to preface such conversations by affirming his satisfaction with their intimate life, helping Christine feel secure rather than threatened. Partners often fail to acknowledge the small gestures that create belonging. Fernando was deeply moved when his wife introduced him as "my dear one" after their relationship struggles. Even during conflict, moments of empathy can transform relationships, as when Maxine suddenly understood Rick's withdrawal as fear stemming from childhood loneliness. Rituals create meaning and reinforce connection in relationships. Since meeting and separation are key attachment moments for primates, creating intentional rituals around daily partings and reunions helps maintain relationship security. Partners are encouraged to design their own bonding rituals, including regular hugging at key transitions, leaving notes, sharing spiritual practices, daily check-ins, special sharing times, date nights, and celebrating achievements. When couples establish emotional safety, practical problems become much easier to solve. Emotional safety promotes team approaches and creative problem-solving, as countless studies link secure connection to improved abilities in asserting needs, empathizing, tolerating ambiguity, and thinking clearly. Creating a coherent narrative about your relationship helps make sense of past struggles and provides a blueprint for the future. When couples are caught in negative cycles, their stories become confused and one-sided, but as they reconnect emotionally, they can develop what Johnson calls a "Resilient Relationship Story." These stories help couples integrate their experiences and build confidence in their ability to maintain connection, serving as emotional anchors during difficult moments. The Future Love Story exercise invites couples to envision their relationship's direction over the next five to ten years. With a secure emotional foundation, partners can dream more expansively and adventurously. These positive models challenge negative relationship templates from our past and literally reshape our brains-as neuroscience shows, repeated positive interactions create new neural pathways that reinforce connection.

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Capítulo 9

The Sacred Circle: Love, Faith, and Connection

For people of faith, connection with God provides comfort and safety in an ever-changing world. Scripture repeatedly portrays God as refuge, parent, friend, and lover-incorporating the same elements of attachment that exist in human relationships. This spiritual bond reflects the core principles of attachment theory: our innate longing for connection, the need for a safe haven, and the security that empowers exploration and growth. Our built-in longing for connection mirrors our spiritual yearning for God. This desire isn't for abstract knowledge but a felt sense of belonging, becoming most tangible during times of vulnerability and uncertainty. Throughout history, Christians have described this as a spiritual journey seeking union with God-a search for peace, wisdom, and wholeness. Connection with God offers believers a safe haven-a place of peace and consolation. Studies show that physical connection with loving attachment figures calms our nervous system and deactivates fear responses. Similarly, spiritual connection with God provides comfort during life's difficulties, as expressed in the hymn "Abide with Me"-when darkness deepens, God remains present as the "help of the helpless." Loving connection makes us stronger by providing a secure base from which to explore the world. Just as children with secure attachment are more adventurous knowing they have safety to return to, acknowledging dependence on God paradoxically strengthens believers. Psalm 23 illustrates this, showing how connection with God empowers us to face even "the valley of the shadow of death" without fear. There are three basic ways people engage with those they depend on: reaching openly, anxiously demanding, or maintaining emotional distance. These same attachment patterns manifest in our relationship with God, as illustrated by Amy's secure connection where she can "reach for Him and find that still moment of peace," Kate's anxious pattern of feeling abandoned and demanding response, and Tom's avoidant dismissal of his need for divine connection. Research shows that when our human bonds are positive, they cascade into stronger spiritual connections-secure attachment with parents and partners opens us to experiencing God's love more fully, while our connection with God enhances our human relationships, creating a "sacred circle" of love. When lovers establish a secure bond, their capacity for compassion expands beyond their relationship. Research shows that even young children who feel secure with their mothers demonstrate more empathy toward others. Security in our primary relationships frees energy to care for others and makes us more positive and willing to engage emotionally. Happy families begin with happy partnerships. When partners are stressed and fighting, they become harsher with children and emotionally unavailable. Conversely, secure attachment between partners fosters better parenting, providing children with a safe haven and secure base. Research confirms that securely attached children are happier, more socially competent, and resilient. Loving families form the foundation of a humane society. Our capacity for connection naturally expands beyond intimate bonds to our communities and the wider world. As Johnson concludes, "We are created for connection"-a truth Christians have always known through Scripture's love story of restored connection with God. The most essential commandment remains "Love one another as I have loved you."

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attachment theory
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In the beginning when God created the heavens and the earth, the earth was a formless void and darkness covered the face of the deep, while a wind from God swept over the face of the waters.
God saw that the light was good; and God separated the light from the darkness.
Am I my brother’s keeper?
You shall not murder.
You shall not commit adultery.

Personagens de A Bíblia na Versão Padrão Revisada com Apócrifos

Dr. Sue JohnsonAuthor and psychologist who developed EFT
Mary AinsworthColleague of Bowlby who studied child separation
Phil ShaverResearcher who applied attachment to adult love
Cindy HazanResearcher who studied adult attachment patterns

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A Dra. Susan Johnson (1947–2024) foi a autora pioneira de Criados para a Conexão e uma psicóloga clínica de renome mundial. Ela transformou o campo da terapia de casais e famílias através do desenvolvimento da Terapia Focada nas Emoções (EFT).

Nascida na Grã-Bretanha e tendo trabalhado em todo o Canadá, Johnson obteve seu doutorado em psicologia do aconselhamento pela Universidade da Colúmbia Britânica. Ela dedicou mais de três décadas ao estudo dos vínculos humanos, da teoria do apego e dos relacionamentos românticos.

Como diretora fundadora do Centro Internacional para Excelência em Terapia Focada nas Emoções, ela treinou profissionais de saúde mental em todo o mundo em EFT, uma abordagem terapêutica validada por mais de 35 anos de pesquisas revisadas por pares e reconhecida como o padrão ouro para a reparação de relacionamentos. Seu livro best-seller Hold Me Tight: Sete Conversas para uma Vida Inteira de Amor vendeu mais de um milhão de cópias e foi traduzido para 30 idiomas.

Johnson recebeu honrarias de prestígio, incluindo a de Psicóloga da Família do Ano pela Associação Americana de Psicologia e a Ordem do Canadá, consolidando seu legado como uma das vozes mais influentes na ciência do apego e na psicologia do relacionamento.

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