We’re so unhappy to announce that Sue Johnson has died on the age of 76 from most cancers. She was an in depth good friend of ours and a valued colleague. We cherished her enormously. She gave us profound insights into the right way to create connection and security in shut relationships. Sue used attachment concept to brilliantly illuminate the logic of feelings and the way, as soon as revealed, they turn into a information to our interpersonal wants. These wants, as soon as articulated within the context of a loving, protected haven can information a pair towards lasting love.
From the beginning, Sue created a concept of grownup love relationships that she examined empirically. She mixed the very best qualities of a healer with the very best qualities of a scientist. She might additionally talk her insights poetically and lyrically. When she noticed that some {couples} obtained caught utilizing her emotionally-focused remedy, she went again to the information and revealed that generally 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 scientific instinct, doesn’t get any higher than that.
The three of us used to have deep conversations concerning the dance of affection and the right 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 in all our greatest. She was all the time keen to share her insights. It may be best to say that we had a mutual admiration society.
For Sue relationship synchrony might turn into a ravishing dance that would give flight to some’s creativeness and intimacy. Sue Johnson tapped an important fountain of affection and connection that would heal and create a safe bond. What a significant life she led.
We are going to deeply miss her.