Facilitating Emotional Change: The Moment-by-Moment Process
Author(s): Leslie S. Greenberg
While emotions are often given a negative connotation people are described as being "too emotional" or as needing to "control their emotions" the authors of this volume argue that, to the contrary, emotions are organizing processes that enhance adaptation and problem solving. Within an experiential therapy framework, they show how to work with moment-by-moment emotional processes to resolve various psychological difficulties. The first two sections of the book provide an introduction and lay the theoretical groundwork for the treatment manual that follows. The process experiential approach to treatment is presented, followed by an explication of the interrelationships among emotion, cognition, and change that results in a powerful, clinically relevant theory of human functioning. The third section, a detailed treatment manual, outlines the general principles and methods of therapy and provides step-by-step directions for six specific types of interventions. Excerpts from actual transcripts exemplify the various methods, illuminating the moment-by-moment process for both the client and the therapist.
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"An extremely important contribution to the literature on experiential therapy and, indeed, to the area of psychotherapy theory, practice, and research more generally....The methods described in this book will surely be of interest to therapists trained in other traditions as well, particularly those with an integrationist bent....I am very enthusiastic about this book." --"Journal of Psychotherapy Integration"
"A very impressive book. It is practical, makes a significant contribution to theory building in psychotherapy, and is research based. It breaks new ground by integrating the role of emotions in development and in personal change with developments in cognitive notions of constructive information processing that affect human behavior. It does for the role of emotions in psychotherapy what prior conceptualizations by cognitive-behavioral theorists (e.g., Beck, Ellis, Meichenbaum) did for the role of cognitions in psychotherapy....The book...contributes significantly to our understanding of the psychotherapy process. Readers with a hypnotherapeutic orientation, who traditionally explore with clients the domain where emotion, cognition, and behavior intersect, should find a treasure of concepts and practical interventions to extend their therapeutic repertoire."--"American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis"
"This is a clinically oriented book on emotional change that is nevertheless well grounded in psychological theory and research." --"Cognition and Emotion"
"This text presents a fully developed psychotherapeutic process for achieving emotional development and stability in patients." --"Biosis "
Introduction. A Process Experiential Approach. Theory: Emotion, Cognition and Change. Perspectives on Human Functioning. Towards an Experiential Theory of Functioning. Dysfunction. The Manual: Basic Principles and Task-guided Interventions. A: Treatment Manual: The General Approach.Treatment Principles for a Process-Experiential Approach. What the Therapist Does: Experiential Response. B: The Treatment Tasks. Systematic Evocative Unfolding at Problematic Reaction Points. Experiential Focusing for an Unclear Felt Sense. Two Chair Dialogue at a Self-Evaluative Split. Two Chair Dialogue at a Self-Interruption Split. Empty Chair Work for Unfinished Business. Empathic Affirmation at a Vulnerability Marker. Treatment Application.Applying the Process Experiential Approach. The Process Experiential Approach: An Overview.
General Fields
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- : 107813
- : 107813
- : 27 January 1997
- : United States
- : books
Special Fields
- : Leslie S. Greenberg
- : Paperback
- : New edition
- : 616.8914
- : 361
- : illustrations
