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Emotionally Focused Therapy Case Study

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This paper focuses on Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), its foundational theory, interventions, and application to a case study. Its founders were Susan Johnson and Leslie Greenberg, and they officially labeled the theory in the 1980s . The theory was based on John Bowlby’s Attachment Theory and connection between the amygdala and cerebral cortex. Originally, there were nine steps to the interventions used to work with couples. However, over the years, Johnson narrowed the interventions down to three stages of change, while Greenberg narrowed it down to five stages of framework. The case study is based on the couple from Fifty Shades of Grey , including the characters Christian Grey and Anastasia Steele. EFT is applied to working with

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