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Emotionally focused individual

therapy: An attachment-based

experiential/systemic perspective

Lorrie Brubacher #Pages 50-67 | Received 30 Dec 2015, Accepted 02 Sep 2016, Published online: 09 Mar 2017

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Abstract

Attachment theory as a theory of adult love and emotion

regulation can provide a humanistic paradigm for therapeutic

change that is relevant to a broad range of presenting problems. I

advocate emotionally focused individual therapy, an attachment-

based experiential/systemic integration that targets concerns

common across various models of individual psychotherapy:

creating secure attachment, resolving negative interpersonal and

intrapsychic interactive patterns, and developing effective

emotion regulation strategies. I suggest that attachment theory

sets the stage from which to consider individual therapy as a

process of love (developing secure connections) between

therapist and client, between client and past and present

relationships, and within the clients internal processes. I present

principles of attachment, discuss how these principles can

fruitfully shape the therapeutic relationship, define the

destination for change, offer guidance for working with emotion

and shape interventions and change processes. The change

processes which I present and illustrate with a case example are

as follows: (1) identifying patterns of emotion regulation and

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deepening the underlying emotion and (2) creating corrective

emotional experiences that can transform these patterns into

secure bonds interpersonally and intrapsychically.

La thrapie individuelle centre sur les motions:

une perspective exprientielle/systmique base

sur lattachement.

En tant que thorie de la rgulation des motions et de lamour

chez ladulte, la thorie de lattachement savre tre un

paradigme pertinent pour le changement thrapeutique dans un

grand ventail de problmes rencontrs. Je prconise une

approche intgre exprientielle /systmique de lattachement qui

cible les proccupations communes des modles varis de

psychothrapie individuelle: cration dun attachement scure,

rsolution de schmas ngatifs dinteraction interpersonnelle et

psychique et dveloppement de stratgies de rgulation

motionnelle efficaces. Je suggre que la thorie de lattachement

permet douvrir des voies au dpart desquelles on peut

considrer la thrapie individuelle comme un processus damour

(dvelopper des liens scures) entre le thrapeute et le client,

entre le client et ses relations passes ou prsentes, et au cur

mme des processus internes du client. Je prsente les principes

de lattachement et je discute la faon par laquelle ces principes

peuvent configurer de faon fconde la relation thrapeutique,

dfinir la direction du changement, procurer des conseils pour le

travail avec lmotion et faonner les interventions et le processus

de changement. Les processus de changement que je prsente et

que jillustre avec un exemple de cas sont les suivants: 1)

identification de schmas de rgulation des motions et

intensification des motions sous-jacentes et 2) cration

dexpriences motionnelles correctrices qui peuvent transformer

ces schmas en liens interpersonnels et intrapsychiques scures.

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therapeutische Vernderung zur Verfgung stellen, welches fr

eine groe Bandbreite von sich prsentierenden Problemen

relevant ist. Ich vertrete eine bindungsbasierte

experienzielle/systemische Integration, die auf Anliegen abzielt,

die ber verschiedene Modelle von Einzeltherapie hinweg

gemeinsam sind: eine sichere Bindung zu schaffen, negative

interpersonelle und intrapsychische interaktive Muster aufzulsen

und wirksame Emotionsregulationsstrategien zu entwickeln. Ich

schlage vor, dass die Bindungstheorie die Ebene zur Verfgung

stellt, auf der Einzeltherapie wie folgt betrachtet werden kann: als

ein Prozess der Liebe (das Entwickeln sicherer Bindung) zwischen

Therapeut- und Klient-Person, zwischen der Klient-Person und

vergangenen und gegenwrtigen Beziehungen sowie innerhalb

der inneren Prozesse der Klient-Person. Ich stelle Prinzipien von

Bindung vor und diskutiere, wie diese Prinzipien die

therapeutische Beziehung fruchtbar gestalten knnen, definiere

die Ausrichtung von Vernderung, biete Richtlinien an, mit

Emotion zu arbeiten und wie man Interventionen und

Vernderungsprozesse gestaltet. Die Vernderungsprozesse, die

ich vorstelle und mit einem Fallbeispiel illustriere, sind: 1. Muster

der Emotion-Regulation zu identifizieren und die darunter

liegende Emotion zu vertiefen und 2. korrigierende emotionale

Erfahrungen zu schaffen, welche diese Muster zu sicheren

interpersonellen und intrapsychischen Bindungen verndern

kann.

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La teora del apego como una teora del amor adulto, y la

regulacin de la emocin, puede proporcionar un paradigma

humano para el cambio teraputico que es relevante a una

amplia gama de presentacin de problemas. Abogo por una

integracin experiencial sistmica basada en el apego que apunta

a preocupaciones comunes a travs de varios modelos de

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