Learning Emotion-Focused Therapy - Supplemental Materials

Chapter 7: Empathy and Exploration: The Core of Process-Experiential Therapy

7.4. Additional information: Re-experiencing Methods in Psychology and Psychotherapy

 


 

Re-experiencing, a key process in Empathic Exploration (and also the Re-processes Tasks of Chapter 10), has a long history in psychology, in the form of exposure therapy (e.g.., Foa & Rothbaum, 1997), research on episodic or autobiographical memory (Singer & Salovey, 1993), and the use of personal recollection in narrative and qualitative research (Reissman, 1993).

 

Recommended Reading:

 

            Foa, E.B. & Rothbaum, B.O.  (1997).  Treating the trauma of rape:  Cognitive behavioral therapy for PTSD.  New York: Guilford Press.

Reissman,  C. (1993).  Narrative Analysis.  Newberry Park, CA: Sage.

            Singer, J.A., & Salovey, P. (1993).  The remembered self: Emotion and memory in personality.  New York: Free Press.

 


 

Materials designed to accompany the book Learning Emotion-Focused Therapy: The Process-Experiential Approach to Change from APA Books.

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