Frontiers Friday #99. Emotions (Part V) ⭕
FF98 Emotion-Focused (Part V)
I'm writing the finishing touches of this week's newsletter from the airport. Heading home after a week-long training with the team in Coffs Harbour, New South Wales (Thanks David Hedger for the hospitality and friendship. Just amazed at the level of dedication of practitioners in this part of the world).
After the last two missives on the use of the voice, we are circling back to the topic on how to work with emotions in therapy. It would be remiss not to mention the work of Leslie Greenberg and colleagues in Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT).
In case you missed the last 4 on the topic of Emotions, here it is:
Here's this week's Frontiers Friday Five Recommendations:
📕 New Book: Changing Emotions with Emotions
I'm still reading this latest book by Leslie Greenberg, published by APA.
A great consolidation of his life's work in simple language. The book is interspersed with useful transcripts.📜 Article: Emotion-Focused Therapy
This is a short article on EFT. It's dated, but still useful if you want a quick introduction.👓 Read: Case Studies in Emotion-Focused Treatment of Depression: A Comparison of Good and Poor Outcome
I don't know about you, but I find it so much more useful to watch a therapy session than to read about it from a theoretical perspective.
There are many books on EFT, but this particularly one, offers a behind-closed-doors perspective examining 6 in-depth case studies—three of which result in a good outcome and three in a poor outcome.✍️ Research: Working with emotion predicts sudden gains during experiential therapy for depression
This particular study by Terry Singh et al. (2021) intrigued me. Through an archival videotape dataset and a series of measures, this was the first study to tease out that clients who experienced sudden gains were more likely to have experienced a critical session prior to that. Specifically, in significant sessions prior to an improvement in their depressive symptoms, therapists were found to be more likely to focus on unmet client's need, and clients were more likely to experience a deepening of emotions within-session, and express "adaptive emotions"
⏸ Words Worth Contemplating:
There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of the truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours.
~ Novelist Arnold Bennett
Reflection:
How is your heart?
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