Made to measure: Adapting emotionally focused couple therapy to partners' attachment styles

This article summarizes the theory, practice, and empirical findings on emo tionally focused couple therapy (EFT), now one of the best documented and v alidated approacher to repairing close relationships. Err is based on an at tachment perspective of adult intimacy. The article then considers how indi vidual differences in attachment style have an impact on affect regulation, information processing, and communication in close relationships and how t he practice of EFT is influenced by these differences.