Antonio Pascual-Leone, PhD, CPsych, is a professor in psychology at the University of Windsor, Canada and is an honorary professor of psychiatry at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. Dr. Pascual-Leone runs the Emotion Change Lab at the University of Windsor and supervises research on the processes of emotional change as they occur in psychotherapy and in everyday life. Dr. Pascual-Leone usually teaches courses on psychotherapy interventions and has co-authored a book on Emotion-Focused Therapy with Dr. Sandra C. Paivio. He has published seminal contributions to the theory and research of emotion-focused therapy and is regarded as a world expert in emotional processing. His work is recognized by career awards from international societies as well as distinguished publication awards.

Introduction

Chapter 1: A General Theory of Emotional Change

Part I – Reduce Intensity

Chapter 2: Down-Regulating Emotional Intensity

Chapter 3: Avoidance, Desensitization, and Behavioral Coping

Part II: Notice The Feeling

Chapter 4: Emotional Awareness: From Engagement to Symbolization

Chapter 5: Emotional Engagement: Getting in Touch With What's There

Chapter 6: Labeling Emotion: Finding Just the Right Words

Chapter 7: Deepening Emotion Through Symbolization

Part III: Feel More, Express More

Chapter 8: Heightening Arousal, Vividness, Expression, and Enactments

Chapter 9: Getting Physical: Working From the Outside In

Chapter 10: Enactments: Working From the Inside Out

Chapter 11: Proclamation of Self: "I Felt It, I Said It, I Did It!"

Part IV: Order the Sequence of Emotions

Chapter 12: Sequential Transformation: The Pattern in Emotion Makes the Change

Chapter 13: Changing Emotion With Emotion: The Process in Action

Chapter 14: Adult Emotional Development: Expanding One's Repertoire

Chapter 15: The Sequential Model: "The Only Way Out is Through"

Chapter 16: Tracking Sequences: The Roller Coaster to Resolution

Part V: Put the Feeling in Context

Chapter 17: Using Context and Narrative: "The Big Picture"

Chapter 18: Psychological Elaboration: Telling More of the Story

Chapter 19: We Have Relationship With Our Memories: Revising the "Meta-Data"

Chapter 20: Stepping Out of the Frame: "I Am Myself and My Circumstances"

Chapter 21: Life Narrative and Identity: The Story Itself Is an Agent of Change

Chapter 22: Storying the Self: "It's a Matter of Perspective . . ."

Chapter 23: Having Purpose and Making Choices

Part VI: Conclusions: A New Paradigm

Chapter 24: A General Theory of Emotion Change

References

Index

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