Shame and Anger in Therapy

Name: Shame and Anger in Therapy
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ISBN: 978-1-4338-4128-6

With Leslie S. Greenberg

ISBN: 978-1-4338-4128-6

April 2023

Item # 3841286

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Part of the Series I: Systems of Psychotherapy

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Description

In Shame and Anger in Therapy, Dr. Leslie Greenberg uses emotion-focused therapy over the span of two separate sessions to guide a client toward processing deep-seated emotions.

Emotion-focused therapy (EFT) is an empirically supported experiential treatment that views emotions as centrally important in the experience of self, in both adaptive and maladaptive functioning, and in therapeutic change. EFT involves a style that combines both following and guiding the client’s experiential process and emphasizes the importance of both relationship and intervention skills. It takes emotion as the fundamental datum of human experience while recognizing the importance of meaning-making, and ultimately views emotion and cognition as inextricably intertwined. In the two demonstrations in this video, Greenberg incorporates the two-chair method and other carefully timed interventions to help the client focus on confronting rather than avoiding their emotions. This process activates the adaptive potential of emotion to help change the client's problematic emotional states and begin to embrace a different experience of self.

This demonstration is bookended by a lively interview with the guest therapist conducted by host, Dr. Serine Warwar.

Approach

Emotion-focused therapy (EFT), (Greenberg, 2002) is an empirically supported experiential treatment that views emotions as centrally important in the experience of self, in both adaptive and maladaptive functioning, and in therapeutic change. EFT involves a style that combines both following and guiding the client’s experiential process and emphasizes the importance of both relationship and intervention skills. It takes emotion as the fundamental datum of human experience while recognizing the importance of meaning-making, and ultimately views emotion and cognition as inextricably intertwined.

EFT proposes that emotions themselves have an innately adaptive potential that if activated can help clients change problematic emotional states or unwanted self-experiences. Clients are helped in therapy to better identify, experience, explore, make sense of, transform, and flexibly manage their emotions. As a result, clients become more skillful in accessing the important information and meanings about themselves and their world that emotions contain, as well as become more skillful in using that information to live vitally and adaptively.

Contributor bios

Leslie Greenberg, PhD, is a distinguished research professor emeritus of psychology at York University in Toronto and the primary developer of emotion-focused therapy.

He has authored the books Emotion in Psychotherapy (1986), Emotionally Focused Therapy for Couples (1988) and has published many research articles on these topics. Other works include Emotion-Focused Couples Therapy: The Dynamics of Emotion, Love and Power (2008), Therapeutic Presence (2012), Emotion-Focused Therapy: Theory and Practice (2015), Case Formulation in Emotion-Focused Therapy (2015), Emotion-Focused Therapy of Generalized Anxiety (2017), Emotion-Focused Therapy of Forgiveness (2019), and Changing Emotion with Emotion ( 2021).

He has received the Distinguished Research Career award of the International Society for Psychotherapy Research as well as the Carl Rogers and the Distinguished Professional Contribution to Applied Research of APA. He also has received the Canadian Psychological Association Professional Award for distinguished contributions to Psychology as a profession.

He is a past president of the Society for Psychotherapy Research. He currently trains people internationally in emotion–focused approaches.

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