Our Good friend and Valued Colleague, Sue Johnson
We’re so unhappy to announce that Sue Johnson has died on the age of 76 from most cancers. She was an in depth pal of ours and a valued colleague. We cherished her enormously. She gave us profound insights into the way to create connection and security in shut relationships. Sue used attachment idea to brilliantly illuminate the logic of feelings and the way, as soon as revealed, they develop into a information to our interpersonal wants. These wants, as soon as articulated within the context of a loving, secure haven can information a pair towards lasting love.
From the beginning, Sue created a idea of grownup love relationships that she examined empirically. She mixed the most effective qualities of a healer with the most effective qualities of a scientist. She may additionally talk her insights poetically and lyrically. When she noticed that some {couples} acquired caught utilizing her emotionally-focused remedy, she went again to the info and revealed that usually there was a regrettable incident that had created an attachment harm, after which she demonstrated that therapeutic that attachment harm elevated her remedy’s effectiveness. Science, guided by medical instinct, doesn’t get any higher than that.
The three of us used to have deep conversations in regards to the dance of affection and the way to conduct additional research into choreographing it. Years in the past, Sue additionally joined us at a Gottman Institute Summit convention that was one among our greatest. She was all the time keen to share her insights. It is likely to be best to say that we had a mutual admiration society.
For Sue relationship synchrony may develop into a fantastic dance that would give flight to a few’s creativeness and intimacy. Sue Johnson tapped a significant fountain of affection and connection that would heal and create a safe bond. What a significant life she led.
We’ll deeply miss her.