The centrality of emotion in unifying and accelerating psychotherapy

✍ Scribed by Jeffrey J. Magnavita

• Book ID: 102309481
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 109 KB
• Volume: 62
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0021-9762
• DOI: 10.1002/jclp.20250

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

An array of treatment modalities, formats, and methods show promise in increasing the affective experience of the patient and thus potentially accelerating the course of psychotherapy through a coherent framework. A unified framework allows clinicians to select from various formats and methods and to use relational factors to maximize treatment potency. The treatment of a patient who had personality disturbance, chronic depression, obsessive‐compulsive disorder, and road rage illustrates several unifying principles and demonstrates that emotional experiences and their processing often lead to beneficial outcomes. © 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Clin Psychol: In Session 62: 585–596, 2006.