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Principles of Emotion Change: What Works and When in Psychotherapy and Everyday Life

Author(s) : Antonio Pascual-Leone

Table of Contents

Introduction
1. A General Theory of Emotional Change

Part I – Reduce Intensity
2. Down-Regulating Emotional Intensity
3. Avoidance, Desensitization, and Behavioral Coping

Part II - Notice the Feeling
4. Emotional Awareness: From Engagement to Symbolization
5. Emotional Engagement: Getting in Touch With What’s There
6. Labeling Emotion: Finding Just the Right Words
7. Deepening Emotion Through Symbolization

Part III - Feel More, Express More
8. Heightening Arousal, Vividness, Expression, and Enactments
9. Getting Physical: Working From the Outside In
10. Enactments: Working From the Inside Out
11. Proclamation of Self: “I Felt It, I Said It, I Did It!”

Part IV - Order the Sequence of Emotions
12. Sequential Transformation: The Pattern in Emotion Makes the Change
13. Changing Emotion With Emotion: The Process in Action
14. Adult Emotional Development: Expanding One’s Repertoire
15. The Sequential Model: “The Only Way Out is Through”
16. Tracking Sequences: The Roller Coaster to Resolution

Part V - Put the Feeling in Context
17. Using Context and Narrative: “The Big Picture”
18. Psychological Elaboration: Telling More of the Story
19. We Have Relationship With Our Memories: Revising the “Meta-Data”
20. Stepping Out of the Frame: “I Am Myself and My Circumstances”
21. Life Narrative and Identity: The Story Itself Is an Agent of Change
22. Storying the Self: “It’s a Matter of Perspective . . ."
23. Having Purpose and Making Choices

Part VI - Conclusions: A New Paradigm
24. A General Theory of Emotion Change

References
Index