On the Emotional Level

On the Emotional Level

We give the inner critic a seat on an empty chair and entice the diffuse feeling of heaviness in the chest out into consciousness using the focusing
technique. On the other hand, to begin with perhaps we should look at the whole thing from a meta-emotional standpoint?
Chair dialogues or imagination exercises - which technique should be selected to focus the emotions needs to be decided on the basis of the patient’s problem and the aims of the therapy. Even though many therapists regard emotion-focusing exercises as helpful, blockages and indecision can prevent the techniques from being used in a way which makes sense. Gitta Jacob presents a heuristic and draws on numerous case studies to shows in which situations and with which goals emotion-focusing interventions can be properly embedded, carried out and completed in the session.

• Lots of case studies
• Helpful principles and strategies for effective work on emotions
• Using emotions as a resource in the change process
• Recognising significant emotions in patients

TARGET GROUP
Psychological and medical psychotherapists, psychotherapists in training, psychiatrists, counsellors, coaches, child and adolescent psychotherapists