Showing papers by "Leslie S. Greenberg published in 1984"
TL;DR: In this article, the authors employ a constructive model in which emotion is viewed as resulting from a synthesis of components and explore some of the ways in which feeling and thinking interact, both in clinical problems and in therapeutic change.
Abstract: There is a growing recognition among clinicians of the need for a comprehensive model of emotion, which illuminates the role of affective processes in psychotherapy In the present article, we employ a constructive model in which emotion is viewed as resulting from a synthesis of components This emotional synthesis model is used to explore some of the ways in which “feeling” and “thinking” interact, both in clinical problems and in therapeutic change It is suggested that many clinical problems involve a breakdown in the emotional synthesis process and that an important focus of therapy should be the integration of the different levels of processing involved in the construction of emotional experience It is also argued that affect does not play a simple, uniform role in therapeutic change but instead should be viewed as operating in different ways in different change events For this reason, it is important to begin delineating different mechanisms through which changes in emotional processing can bring about therapeutic change To this end, three such mechanisms are proposed: the synthesis of adaptive emotional experience, de-automating dysfunctional emotional habits, and modifying state-dependent learning
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that a complex scheme of the type that we have elaborated is required to do justice to the complex nature of emotional processes, and that this complexity need not necessarily constitute an obstacle to research.
Abstract: In response to the comments of Rachman (1984) and Mahoney (1984), we attempt to further clarify some of the key features of our perspective on the role of emotion in human functioning and in psychotherapy change. The model we are proposing is a compromise between a realist and a constructivist position. We believe that emotional experience involves the pick-up of real information both from the environment and from the organism itself. It is hypothesized that the basis structure for emotional experience is inwired. At the same time, however, emotion is also viewed as the product of a constructive or synthetic process through which subsidiary components are integrated at a preattentive level and synthesized into a unified conscious experience. We argue that a complex scheme of the type that we have elaborated is required to do justice to the complex nature of emotional processes, and that this complexity need not necessarily constitute an obstacle to research.
26 citations
TL;DR: This paper evaluated the effectiveness of a Gestalt skill-training group and found that counselors responded to a client statement of conflict significantly more often with a two-chair dialogue intervention, and used significantly more of the advanced skills of direct guidance, open question, and nonverbal referent than they did before training.
Abstract: This study evaluated the effectiveness of a Gestalt skill-training group Results indicated that after training, counselors responded to a client statement of conflict significantly more often with a two-chair dialogue intervention, and used significantly more of the advanced skills of direct guidance, open question, and nonverbal referent than they did before training
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