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In Process Experiential Psychotherapy: An Emotion-Focused Approach, Dr. Leslie S. Greenberg demonstrates this deeply empathic, emotion-focused approach to treatment. In process experiential psychotherapy, the therapist works to guide the client's affective and cognitive processing of experience through the use of appropriate active interventions that facilitate the resolution of painful emotions. In this session, Dr. Greenberg works with a 34-year-old man who is depressed. Using empathy and in-session activities, they explore the sources of the client's current affective state. This video features a client portrayed by an actor on the basis of actual case material. Read about precipitating events and preceding sessions
The process experiential approach relies on the provision of a genuine, prizing, empathic relationship and on the therapist being highly attuned and responsive to the client's moment by moment feelings and experience. Within the context of an empathic relationship the therapist guides the client's cognitive and affective processing in certain directions. A central issue for this treatment is achieving a balance between relational responsiveness and process directiveness, between leading and following. The aim is for the therapist and client to work collaboratively to explore the client's experience and to construct new meaning.
Leslie S. Greenberg, PhD, is professor of psychology at York University in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He is the director of the York University Psychotherapy Research Clinic. He has coauthored major texts on emotion-focused approaches to treatment of individuals and couples. His most recent books are Emotion-Focused Therapy for Depression (with Jeanne C. Watson; American Psychological Association, 2005) and Emotion-Focused Therapy (2001). He recently co-edited Empathy Reconsidered (1997) and the Handbook of Experiential Psychotherapy (1998). Dr. Greenberg is a founding member of the Society of the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration and a past president of the Society for Psychotherapy Research. He is on the editorial board of a number of psychotherapy journals, including the Journal of Psychotherapy Integration and the Journal of Marital and Family Therapy.
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