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Book SynopsisThis book presents principles and methods for working with emotion in psychotherapy to address the core maladaptive processes that cause anxiety, depression, and other common clinical disorders.Trade ReviewConceptually brilliant, clinically bold, and empirically persuasive, this book is pure Greenberg—perhaps today’s most well-rounded and accomplished scholar, researcher, practitioner, and trainer in psychotherapy. -- Louis G. Castonguay, PhD, Liberal Arts Professor of Psychology, Penn State University, University Park, PA
In this book, Leslie Greenberg, one of the world’s leading experts, presents a deep and insightful view of how to work with emotion in psychotherapy. This is a book for all practicing therapists, as well as for those who teach psychotherapy and those who do research on psychotherapy. The author presents a unique, research-based model of how working with emotion creates change. I particularly liked the chapters that dealt with therapist skills. It gives a sophisticated and insightful view of the roles of therapist empathy and self disclosure. It also includes important sections on dealing with culture and systemic racism. It will be useful to therapists of all persuasions. I plan to use it in my classes.
-- Arthur C. Bohart, PhD, Professor Emeritus, California State University Dominguez Hills
Leslie Greenberg has long been a source of some of the most important and generative ideas in our field. At a time when psychotherapy is sometimes reduced to an arid overemphasis on cognition, Greenberg points our attention to experience and emotion. This book is rigorously grounded in research and amply filled with rich nuggets for the clinician. -- Paul L. Wachtel, PhD, Distinguished Professor of Clinical Psychology, City College of CUNY, New York, NY
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Working With Emotion in Psychotherapy
Part I: Understanding the Fundamentals
Chapter 1. Emotion Theory
Chapter 2. Research on Emotional Change
Chapter 3. Changing Emotion Wth Emotion
Chapter 4. Essential Therapist Skills for Practicing Emotion-Based Approaches
Part II: Arriving at Emotion
Chapter 5. Empathic Attunement to Affect
Chapter 6. Focusing on Bodily Feelings: When Words Are Not Enough
Chapter 7. Blocks to Emotion
Chapter 8. Unblocking Emotion
Part III: Leaving Emotion
Chapter 9. Working With Needs
Chapter 10. Reexperiencing the Past in the Present
Chapter 11. Emotion Regulation
Chapter 12. Narrative and Emotion
Looking Ahead: A Unified Approach to Psychotherapy
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