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List of contents
Preface, I Introduction 1 Emotion and Psychotherapeutic Change II Psychotherapy Theory and Research 2 Emotion from the Perspective of Psychotherapy Theory 3 Empirical Evidence III Models of Emotion 4 A Review of Psychological Theories and Research on Emotion 5 Emotion, Cognition, and Behavior: An Integration IV Therapeutic Processes 6 Affective Change Processes 7 Affective Events 8 Affective Information Processing in Therapeutic Change 9 Models of Emotional Processing in Change Events V Conclusion 10 Future Directions, References, Index
About the author
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.
Jeremy D. Safran, PhD, until his death in 2018, was Professor of Psychology at the New School for Social Research, where he served for many years as Director of Clinical Training, and Senior Research Scientist at New York's Beth Israel Medical Center. A renowned psychotherapy researcher, clinician, teacher, and mentor, Dr. Safran was past president of the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. He was a recipient of honors including the Senior Distinguished Research Career Award from the Society for Psychotherapy Research and the Scholarship and Research Award from Division 39 of the American Psychological Association.
Summary
Introducing a ground breaking perspective, this compelling new work argues that the presently-felt experience of emotional material in therapy forms a vital underpinning in the generation of change. By including emotion as a psychotherapeutic catalyst, it offers a more complete and encompassing approach to the process of psychotherapy.
