Emotions and Needs

by Freshwater, Dawn

• ISBN13: 9780335208012
• ISBN10: 0335208010
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-07-01
• Publisher: Open University Press

Summary

Through the centrality of the concepts of needs and emotions, this volume describes and discusses issues that are fundamental to psychotherapy. As an alternative to classifying modalities of psychotherapy (and the way in which they understand needs and emotions) by their author, era or underpinning philosophy, this book focuses instead on the emotional patterning of psychotherapy.The book explores need and emotion in relation to what patients bring to therapy and what subsequently facilitates effective engagement. Examining ways of understanding the manifestation of needs and emotions, the authors bring differing therapeutic schools of thought together in contemporary models of integrative psychotherapy which draw upon the transpersonal, postmodern and poststructural. The book is illustrated throughout with clinical vignettes which help the reader ground the theoretical concepts in everyday practice.The discussions in this volume not only add to the current body of knowledge surrounding the fundamental concepts of emotions and needs, but also make a long overdue contribution to the psychotherapeutic professions. Emotions and Needs will be of interest to students and practitioners in fields such as: counselling, psychotherapy, clinical psychology and social work.

Author Biography

Dawn Freshwater is a registered psychotherapist, supervisor and Course Director, University of Nottingham. She has worked as an integrative psychotherapist, trainer and supervisor with individuals in private practice, in the British National Health Service and in the armed forces. She completed her PhD in 1998 which explored the transformatory nature of the therapeutic relationship, she has spoken at numerous international conferences and is well published in both the UK and North America.

Chris Robertson is a registered psychotherapist, supervisor and trainer of psychotherapists working in several European countries. He is the co-founder and director of Revision, the president of the European Association for Integrative Psychotherapy and acts as a consultant to other training organizations nationally and internationally.

Table of Contents

Series editor's preface	vii
Preface and acknowledgements	x
Needs and emotions	1	(14)
Introduction	1	(4)
Rationality versus emotionality	5	(1)
Need, emotion and embodiment	6	(2)
The therapeutic task	8	(3)
Needs and emotions in a cultural context	11	(2)
Summary	13	(2)
Emotional sources	15	(32)
Introduction	15	(1)
Phases of the alliance	16	(3)
A first meeting	19	(1)
Attachment, loss and attunement: the dynamics of early anxiety	20	(6)
Trauma, failure and non-being	26	(6)
Empathic failure with Susan: love and hate	32	(4)
Intrapsychic and enviornmental factors	36	(2)
Complexes and coexes	38	(3)
Collective and cultural emotions and needs	41	(4)
Summary	45	(2)
The emotional encounter	47	(31)
Introduction	47	(1)
Dangerous liaisons	48	(3)
Awareness of needs and motivation for change	51	(3)
Entering the social world	54	(1)
Adjustment versus liberation	55	(1)
Encounter with the false self	56	(2)
Shedding the false self	58	(4)
Developing emotional literacy through authentic awareness	62	(2)
Engaging the emotions and needs: guilt, pride and shame	64	(5)
Power, sexuality and potency	69	(1)
Power, authority and identity	70	(1)
Susan encountering Susan	71	(3)
Summary: the social self	74	(1)
Emotional maturation through communication	75	(3)
Emotional distillation	78	(31)
Introduction	78	(1)
Prepersonal and transpersonal needs and emotions	79	(5)
Mid-life: anxiety, grieving and meaning	84	(4)
Desperately seeking Susan	88	(4)
Initiation, descent and liminality	92	(1)
Despair, hate and love	93	(1)
Emotions and needs: the character of the therapeutic relationship	94	(3)
Love, Eros and the heart	97	(7)
The Return	104	(3)
Summary	107	(2)
Emotions and integration	109	(18)
Introduction	109	(2)
Summarizing	111	(4)
Theoretical deconstructions	115	(2)
Endings: emotions and needs at the point of completing	117	(3)
Implications for training and supervision	120	(1)
Epilogue: a deconstructive dialogue	121	(6)
Further reading	127	(9)
Bibliography	136	(9)
Index	145