So Bob you recently went to an emotionally focused therapy training for individuals because usually

EFT is what we call emotional emotionally focused therapy is is

is it motion is an emotional leaf or a motion focused oh good question

there are two animals

emotionally focused therapy for couples that's Sue Johnson

emotion focused therapy is less Greenberg. I used to know the difference

there is a difference. They're also linked because she was his graduate student and she developed her you know her her emo is different from his

and I'm not real clear about what the difference is I have something in my computer if we

really want to look it up.

If I was take a stab at it, this is just a guess based on, you know, from studying both Greenberg

and Johnson.

Yeah.

Greenberg was, he was focused on individuals for the most part and wanted people to, or his style of therapy was,

instead of focusing on cognitions and on history. of the times a lot of the dominant therapy models were actually trying to get people to stop talking about their emotions to get them, you know, that emotions were like these pesky things that were remnants from our past, you know, evolution.

They were, and we still kind of talk this way.

It's like, I was on the road, someone cut me off and my

reptile brain kicked in and I wanted to kill that person. Well we can all say like,

well, okay, that emotion is something that we don't want to value or guide our behavior.

Right.

So they kind of shoved all emotions into that.

And Greenberg comes along as part of a I believe the

humanistic movement if I'm remembering right I'm not sure makes sense and

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