Principles of Emotion Change: What Works and When in Psychotherapy and Everyday Life - Softcover

Pascual-Leone, Antonio

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1433836602 ISBN 13: 9781433836602

Publisher: American Psychological Association, 2025

Synopsis

This book of theory and practice offers an unprecedented exploration of the nature of emotion and the process by which it changes.

Written for mental health providers and psychotherapy researchers, this innovative and unique volume offers an extraordinary synthesis of psychotherapy research, neuroscience, and practical observations to propose a new paradigm of emotion change. The book presents a general theory of how a difficult emotional state changes. Integrating findings across treatment approaches, it resolves contradictions found in different lines of research and reconciles existing theories that have seemed at odds. It explains the different kinds of emotional change, the hypothesized mechanisms driving that change, and when each type of change is most applicable. Dr. Pascual-Leone demonstrates that having a clearer understanding of how emotion change happens enables clinicians to apply more impactful and effective interventions. Chapters explore everything from moment-by-moment work (through engagement, labeling, and expression) to broader process formulations (such as narrative, re-framing, and purpose in life). Extensive clinical examples help therapists get a better grip on what each kind of processing really means.

About this title

About the Author

Antonio Pascual-Leone, PhD, CPsych, is a professor in psychology at the University of Windsor, Canada and is an honorary professor of psychiatry at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. Dr. Pascual-Leone runs the Emotion Change Lab at the University of Windsor and supervises research on the processes of emotional change as they occur in psychotherapy and in everyday life. Dr. Pascual-Leone usually teaches courses on psychotherapy interventions and has co-authored a book on Emotion-Focused Therapy with Dr. Sandra C. Paivio. He has published seminal contributions to the theory and research of emotion-focused therapy and is regarded as a world expert in emotional processing. His work is recognized by career awards from international societies as well as distinguished publication awards.

Edition details

• Publisher: American Psychological Association
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1433836602
• ISBN 13: 9781433836602
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 488