Emotion and Cognition in Psychotherapy: The Transforming Power of Affect

From: Canadian Psychology | Date: February 1, 2008| Author: Greenberg, Leslie | Copyright information

Abstract

Theory and research on emotion in both psychology and psychotherapy are reviewed to demonstrate the importance of emotion in human functioning and psychotherapeutic change. A proposal is made for the importance of integrating empirically supported emotion-focused change processes into psychotherapeutic work. Five principles of change in the emotion domain-emotion awareness; expression; regulation; reflection on emotion; and the more novel principle of emotion transformation, b...

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