A revolution is occurring in the field of couple therapy. Thanks, in part, to Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), our understanding of the importance of close relationships and how they become distressed, our ability to intervene effectively and outline the process of change, and our ability to explain the processes that define adult love have now reached the point where we can truly talk about couple therapy as an art and a science, based on description, prediction and explanation. The beginning couple therapist no longer has to accept the idea that the process of repairing love relationships is a nebulous and random affair. In this second edition of The Practice of Emotionally Focused Marital Therapy, Susan M. Johnson brings up to date the EFT clinical road-map that she provided in the original and highly regarded 1996 edition. The new edition includes the latest clinical research results, new case studies, a discussion of the growth of couple therapy as a field, and coverage of such new topics as EFT and post-traumatic stress disorder, EFT and forgiveness and reconciliation, and EFT and feminism. Suitable for use by graduate students and practicing mental health professionals alike, this comprehensive new edition confirms Johnson's place on the leading edge of marital therapy.