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Opening Up
The Healing Power of Expressing Emotions
The Healing Power of Expressing Emotions
James W. Pennebaker
"[A] delightfully readable and informative book on the relationship between inhibited emotion and disease states and the healing process of writing....Opening Up can be used to support treatment. It is particularly useful in helping clients/patients increase their awareness of the effects of inhibited emotion and high- and low-level thinking strategies, and it is a natural support for therapeutic writing assignments."
-Psychosomatic Nedicine
"Pennebaker buttresses conclusions based on his extensive research with case studies, which include not only cases of individuals but of entire cities....I found them to be engaging and useful...He does an exemplary job of walking the fine line between a professional volume and a trade book...Pennebaker's research has already made a valuable contribution to the study of psychological processes in health, and this book pulls together his findings and speculations about this fascinating line of work. Opening Up is an engaging, provocative book that will be of interest to lay readers, behavioral researchers, and therapists alike."
-Contemporary Psychology,
"This book is the very best that scientific psychology has to offer. Pennebaker has made remarkable discoveries that show how disclosing our deepest secrets can make us well...throws open new doors of understanding and offers new hope for gaining control of our lives."
-Daniel M. Wegner, author of White Bears and Other Unwanted Thoughts.
"Some of the most important findings published in psychology in the past decade. This work, if followed, would change the lives of millions of people."
-Robert Ornstein, PhD, co-author of Health Pleasures.
"Intelligent and provocative."
-Kirkus Reviews
-Psychosomatic Nedicine
"Pennebaker buttresses conclusions based on his extensive research with case studies, which include not only cases of individuals but of entire cities....I found them to be engaging and useful...He does an exemplary job of walking the fine line between a professional volume and a trade book...Pennebaker's research has already made a valuable contribution to the study of psychological processes in health, and this book pulls together his findings and speculations about this fascinating line of work. Opening Up is an engaging, provocative book that will be of interest to lay readers, behavioral researchers, and therapists alike."
-Contemporary Psychology,
"This book is the very best that scientific psychology has to offer. Pennebaker has made remarkable discoveries that show how disclosing our deepest secrets can make us well...throws open new doors of understanding and offers new hope for gaining control of our lives."
-Daniel M. Wegner, author of White Bears and Other Unwanted Thoughts.
"Some of the most important findings published in psychology in the past decade. This work, if followed, would change the lives of millions of people."
-Robert Ornstein, PhD, co-author of Health Pleasures.
"Intelligent and provocative."
-Kirkus Reviews
