Changing Emotion With Emotion: A Practitioner's Guide - Softcover

Leslie S. Greenberg

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1433834693 ISBN 13: 9781433834691

Publisher: American Psychological Association, 2021

Synopsis

Mental health providers confront emotional suffering every day, yet working with emotion is rarely explicitly taught in clinical graduate programs. There is evidence that emotional experience in therapy relates to therapy outcome across multiple diagnoses. This research has given rise to strategies that address the core maladaptive processes that cause distress and dysfunction, rather than specific diagnoses.

This book presents principles and methods for working with emotion in psychotherapy to target the internal mechanisms that underlie anxiety, depression, and other common clinical disorders. Chapters in this volume focus on methods that help clients with all types of disorders to amp ldquo arrive at, amp rdquo or fully experience, their painful maladaptive emotions, and then amp ldquo leave amp rdquo these emotions by accessing new, adaptive emotions. These methods include helping clients sit with painful feelings, access bodily felt experience, identify unmet needs, and articulate the meaning of an emotion. Excerpts of moment-to-moment clinical dialogue demonstrate techniques such as memory reconsolidation, providing corrective emotional experiences, chair work, and imaginal reentry to past situations.

About this title

About the Author

Leslie S. Greenberg, PhD, is Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus of Psychology at York University in Toronto.

He has authored key texts on emotion-focused psychotherapy, from its inception in the 98 s through today. He has received the Distinguished Research Career award of the International Society for Psychotherapy Research as well as the Carl Rogers and the Distinguished Professional Contribution to Applied Research of the APA.

He conducts a private practice for individuals and couples and trains people in emotion amp ndash focused approaches.

Visit Emotion-Focused Therapy Clinic.

Edition details

• Publisher: American Psychological Association
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1433834693
• ISBN 13: 9781433834691
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 373