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outstanding book. Greenberg and Goldman have made a major contribution to the fields of couples therapy, family therapy, and the overall field of psychotherapeutic intervention. This book is very well written and quite readable. We will be integrating and digesting the material in this book for some time to come. Reader beware: There are many strengths that we identify in this text and few, if any, weaknesses. Emotionally focused therapy for couples (EFT-C) has been widely adopted by couples therapists and many family therapists over the past two decades. EFT-C has also been extensively researched and is considered one of the leading evidence-based couples therapy models (Gottman, 1999; Gurman & Jacobson, 2002; Johnson, 2002b). For those actively involved in the research and practice of couples therapy, this book offers a significant conceptual shift as well as several significant additions and modifications to the EFT-C model. For the first author of this review, J. Douglas Pettinelli, a couples and family therapist and family psychologist who has been following the creation and development of EFT-C since the late 1980s, several things were particularly striking when first picking up this book. First, Susan Johnson is not an author; second, Les Greenberg is the first author. Since the publication of their first book on emotionally focused couples therapy (Greenberg & Johnson, 1988), Susan Johnson has been identified with this widely adopted, evidence-based approach to couples therapy (Johnson, 1996, 2002a)