Bonding Psychotherapy has been shown to be highly effective for people who are coping with current challenges in their lives based on their lack of secure attachment in early childhood.

The purpose of Bonding Psychotherapy goes beyond traditional psychotherapy. BP not only reduces current symptoms by helping people to become more securely attached, to themselves and others; it also is effective in increasing the joy and satisfaction in our lives.

"Bonding therapy is - an emotion focused therapy (that) sees the activation of emotion and its processing as essential to change - it is only experience based learning that triggers neural plasticity. This book makes a substantial contribution to the efforts to recognize the central importance of emotion and the emotional bond in psychotherapy.

 

"Dr. Stauss has boldly put forward the proposition of a number of basic conflicts at the base of disorder, primary of which is the basic conflict of bonding:  the desire for emotional closeness and emotional openness versus the fear of closeness and of openly showing one's feelings - (and) the attendant emotional pain, anxiety and emptiness of this unresolved conflict.

 

"This therapy, by integrating emotion(al)  activation and regulation, cognitive restructuring and motivational priming, and corrective emotional experience, is a comprehensive treatment that covers many areas - an emphasis on both accessing avoided emotions and the changing of core schemas is important for enduring therapeutic change."

From a review of the book BONDING PSYCHOTHERAPY, authored by Konrad Stauss, MD, President of the German Society for Bonding Psychotherapy, and edited by Franklin Ellis, LCSW-C, President of the American Society for Bonding Psychotherapy.

 

Quoted from Leslie Greenberg, Ph.D., Director of the Psychotherapy Research Center at York University in Canada, and author of FACILITATING EMOTIONAL CHANGE, 1993.