Working With Emotions in Psychotherapy

by Greenberg, Leslie S.; Paivio, Sandra C.

• ISBN13: 9781572309418
• ISBN10: 1572309415
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-07-29
• Publisher: The Guilford Press

Summary

In previous books, Leslie S. Greenberg has demonstrated the importance of integrating emotional work into therapy and has laid out a compelling model of therapeutic change. Building on these foundations, Working with Emotions in Psychotherapy sheds new light on the process and technique of intervention with specific emotions. Filled with illustrative case examples, the book shows clinicians how to identify a given emotion, discern its role in a client's self-understanding, and understand how its expression is furthering or inhibiting the client's progress. Of vital importance, the authors help readers think more differentially about emotions; to distinguish, for example, between avoided emotional pain and chronic dysfunctional bad feelings, between adaptive sadness and maladaptive depression, and between overcontrolled anger and underregulated rage. A conceptual overview and framework for intervention are delineated, and special attention is given throughout to the int

Author Biography

bios updated June 03 for paperback:
Leslie S. Greenberg, PhD, is Professor of Psychology and Director of the Psychotherapy Research Center at York University in Canada. He is the coauthor of [i]Facilitating Emotional Change[/i] and coeditor of the [i]Handbook of Experiential Psychotherapy[/i], among many other publications.

Sandra C. Paivio, PhD, is Professor of Psychology at the University of Windsor in Canada. Formerly, she was on the Psychology faculty at the University of Saskatchewan.

Table of Contents

The Centrality of Emotion in Psychotherapy

Theoretical Framework

What is Emotion?

Emotion Assessment

Sources of Emotional Disorder

Intervention Framework

The Process of Change

The Phases of Emotionally Focused Intervention

Clinical Examples

Anger

Sadness and Distress

Fear and Anxiety

Shame

The Pleasant Emotions

Research, Training, and Supervision

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