Argues that emotion-focused therapy (EFT) is uniquely capable of targeting the maladaptive emotional schemes that underlie generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) and helping clients maintain lasting, positive change. In this practical guide, Jeanne Watson and Leslie Greenberg teach mental health practitioners how to employ EFT methods in their work ......
The therapeutic relationship is essential to positive outcomes of psychotherapy. Here the authors argue that therapeutic presence is the fundamental underlying quality of the therapeutic relationship and, hence, effective therapy, and also provide a therapeutic presence theory of relationship based on research and clinical wisdom.
The authors present a groundbreaking, empirically based model that integrates working with narrative and emotion processes in emotion-focused therapy (EFT).
Offers a comprehensive tour of Emotion-Focused Therapy research and applications for all common mental health issues including depression, anxiety, interpersonal trauma, personality disorders, and eating disorders.
Psychodynamic and psychoanalytic therapies see emotion as a gateway to meaning, and emotion often provides the initial motivation leading to therapeutic change. In this program, Dr. Norka T. Malberg discusses the mainstream psychodynamic and psychoanalytic model of emotion as well as that of mentalization-based therapy, a recent approach within ......
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 ......
This book should be of value to practitioners and students of psychotherapy from a range of orientations including cognitive, dynamic and experiential, and to students and teachers of psychotherapy.
Updates a classic emotion-focused therapy reference with over 20 years of research and theory. The first edition of this book became the standard reference and training work for a generation of emotion-focused therapy (EFT) therapists. This second edition aims to inspire the next generation of EFT therapists by fully updating the first edition's ......
The question of whether emotion-focused skills is an inborn talent or can be acquired through learning is an intriguing one. On Becoming Emotion Focused attempts to answer that question - whether such attunement is a product of nature (implicit learning) or nurture (explicit learning) while also illustrating, through the unraveling of the author's ......
