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Emotion, Psychotherapy, Change

This book is designed to extend and deepen an important knowledge domain--our understanding of the role of emotion in psychotherapeutic change. In contemporary Western culture the mind is conventionally located in the head. This has not, however, been the case in all cultures. The ancient Hebrews located the mind in the heart. Traditional Japanese culture emphasizes the importance of a type of intuitive knowing, which is localized in the abdomen. Western ciilization's split between mind and body and between reason and emotion--expressed in paradigmatic form in Descartes's cogito--has left a difficult legacy for philosophers, cultural critics, and psychological theorists to struggle with. Emotion in Human Functioning: Theory and Therapeutic Implications AFFECTIVE CHANGE EVENTS Cognitive-Behavioral Approaches Emotional Processing: Theory, Research and Clinical Implications for Anxiety Disorders Affective Change Events in a Cognitive Therapy System Approach Psychodynamic Approaches The Role of Affect in Time-Limited Dynamic Psychoptherapy Affects in Psychopathology and Psychotherapy The Key to Understanding Change: Emotions as Appetitive Wishes and Beliefs about Their Fulfillment Focu

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