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Working with Emotions in Psychotherapy

Leslie S. Greenberg and Sandra C. Paivio

Paperback
Paperback
July 29, 2003
ISBN 9781572309418
Price: $45.00
303 Pages
Size: 6" x 9"
Copyright Date: 1997
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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 integration of emotion and cognition in therapeutic work.

“The authors of this book beautifully describe the hierarchical order of emotions, how to identify specific emotions, and ultimately how to work and restructure the client's relationship to powerful and damaging maladaptive emotions....For people who are interested in cognitive and experiential work with emotions, this book is invaluable.”

The Journal of Psychotherapy Practice and Research


“For any therapist who believes that it is important to address the powerful emotions that clients bring to therapy, this is an important and seminal book.”

Canadian Psychology

Table of Contents

1. The Centrality of Emotion in Psychotherapy

I. Theoretical Framework

2. What Is Emotion?

3. Emotion Assessment

4. Sources of Emotional Disorder

II. Intervention Framework

5. The Process of Change

6. The Phases of Emotionally Focused Interventions

III. Differential Work with the Emotions

7. Anger

8. Sadness and Distress

9. Fear and Anxiety

10. Shame

11. The Pleasant Emotions

12. Research, Training, and Supervision


About the Authors

Leslie S. Greenberg, PhD, is Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus of Psychology and founder and former director of the Emotion-Focused Therapy Clinic at York University in Toronto, Canada.

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.

Audience

Practicing psychotherapists; students in the full range of mental health disciplines.

Serves as a supplemental text in advanced undergraduate- and graduate-level psychotherapy courses.

Course Use

Serves as a supplemental text in advanced undergraduate- and graduate-level psychotherapy courses.